1
a
: wearing no clothing on the upper body
b
: featuring topless waitresses or entertainers
topless bars
c
: being a place where topless women are permitted
a topless beach
2
: being without a top
3
archaic
: so high as to reach up beyond sight
and burnt the topless towers of Ilium—
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Christopher MarloweExamples of topless in a Sentence
She likes to go topless on the beach.
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Video shows Lathers screaming during arrest Body camera footage released by Miami police to multiple media outlets shows Lathers on the ground, topless and breathing heavily after the Aug. 10 accident.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
In others, Munn is photographed topless, revealing the scars on the side of her breasts from the double mastectomy and breast reconstruction.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2024
In the former, a topless man half reclines on a twin bed—a latter-day Madame Récamier.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
One scene that was cut — that, in fact, was never filmed — would have required Spelling to go topless in a spoof of the 1982 horror film The Entity starring Barbara Hershey.
—John Russell, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
In others, Munn is photographed topless, revealing the scars on the side of her breasts from the double mastectomy and breast reconstruction.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2024
In the former, a topless man half reclines on a twin bed—a latter-day Madame Récamier.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
One scene that was cut — that, in fact, was never filmed — would have required Spelling to go topless in a spoof of the 1982 horror film The Entity starring Barbara Hershey.
—John Russell, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/topless. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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