top of the line

1. 1.

   the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise

   Broadermerchandise

   Part ofline

Questions about top of the line

What does top of the line mean?

top of the line means "the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise".

Is top of the line a common word?

top of the line 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.