top out

2 definitions found

top out - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Top out \Top out\ (Building)
     To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost)
     course (called a
  
     top`ping-out" course).
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

top out - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  top out
      v 1: give up one's career just as one becomes very successful;
           "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he
           was burned out"
      2: provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure); "the
         towers were topped with conical roofs" [syn: top, top   out
         ]
      3: to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity,
         activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in
         1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" [syn:
         top out, peak] [ant: bottom out]