top-off

[ top-awf, -of ]

noun

, Australian Slang.

1. a person who informs on another, often as if by accident or as a joke.

top off

verb

1. tr, adverb to finish or complete, esp with some decisive action

   he topped off the affair by committing suicide

Word History and Origins

Origin of top-off¹

First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase top off to inform (on someone)

Related Words

• achieve
• break up
• cease
• close
• complete
• conclude
• culminate
• delay
• drop
• expire
• finish
• give up
• halt
• play out
• quit
• resolve
• settle
• stop
• terminate
• wind up