top lessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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形容詞

topless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a top.

   The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.

2. (poetic) Very high; towering.
   • late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:

     Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

     And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

3. (chiefly of a female) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.

   Synonyms: (of a females) bare-breasted, (of a male) barechested, half-naked, semi-nude, shirtless, topfree

   The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.

4. (of a place) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.

   Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.

   • 1971, “L.A. Woman”, in Jim Morrison (lyrics), L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors:

     Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone

   • 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:

     She was workin' in a topless place / And I stopped in for beer / I just kept lookin' at the side of her face / In the spotlight so clear.

派生語

副詞

topless (not comparable)

1. Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
   • 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:

     'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'

   • 2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News‎:

     Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.

名詞

topless (plural toplesses)

1. (automotive) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

参考

• bottomless
• monokini
• toplessness

アナグラム

• Postels, potless