top billing

1. 1.

   the advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster

   Broaderad

   Part ofshow bill

Questions about top billing

What does top billing mean?

top billing means "the advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster".

Is top billing a common word?

top billing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.