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[ adjective ] (informal) of the highest quality

Examples

"an ace reporter" "a crack shot" "a first-rate golfer" "a super party" "played top-notch tennis" "an athlete in tiptop condition" "she is absolutely tops"

Used in print

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

But then , after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering , everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever , and that the Royal_Academy_of_Music must now have the manuscript in_order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited .

Related terms

superior

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[ adjective ] of the highest quality

Examples

"an ace reporter" "a crack shot" "a first-rate golfer" "a super party" "played top-notch tennis" "an athlete in tiptop condition" "she is absolutely tops"

Related terms

colloquialism superior

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[ adverb ] quite well

Synonyms

very_well

Examples

"she doesn't feel first-rate today"

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