top out

Questions about top out

What does top out mean?

top out means "give up one's career just as one becomes very successful". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for top out?

Close synonyms include top, peak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of top out?

The recorded antonyms are bottom out.

Is top out a common word?

top out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.