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topless

topless

43 6.2
Not wearing clothes on the upper body, with the breasts uncovered
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɑːpləs/
  • NSFW
translation icon : topless
  • One of the victims had worked as a bouncer at a topless bar in Brooklyn, one official said.
  • a topless bar

It was the college girls topless with the Girls Gone Wild.

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Examples

  • Living in California, Florida, somewhere, lying around on beaches where everyone goes topless and working on her TV show.

  • At the beach, it is common to see women getting topless to enjoy the sun.

  • Because French girls sometimes get topless on the beach.

  • Across the street from Advanced Proposals Engineering is a topless bar called The Web.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I wanted to be topless, and Annie was very nervous about that.

  • The one with the topless beaches, remember?

  • Did you know that topless bars do their best business on Mother's Day?

  • At the far end, a small group of women are sunbathing topless.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Richie's mom is a topless dancer.

  • She was actually topless in the the movie Zapped.

Synonyms

shirtless
vstopless
28 1.8

Not wearing a shirt

focuses specifically on breasts or on venues rather than any upper body
bare-breasted
vstopless
  • NSFW
2 7.3

Not wearing clothing over the breasts

also applies to venues and broadly to upper body exposure

Antonyms

1 1.0

Having something on top or around it

How Covered

clothed
1.2
topless
  • NSFW
43 6.2
half-clothed
  • NSFW
1 4.6
naked
  • NSFW
982 1.0

Surface Forms

topless positive

Morphology

topless = top (transparent) = top + less

Derived by negating the clothing sense of 'top' with '-less' to indicate not wearing an upper garment, which learners can readily infer.

Etymology

Topless is formed from top + -less, where top means 'upper clothing or upper part' and -less means 'without', like in sleeveless. So a 'topless' person or place is 'without a top', meaning the upper body is uncovered.