Meaning of top shelf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Best, or high quality.
   US, idiomatic, not-comparable
2. Describing books, magazines, or movies that have adult content or softcore pornography.
   British, idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“I bought a bottle of top shelf whiskey.”

“Most of the band used to buy Autotrader to read on the various bus and plane journeys, but Barry would always turn up with a copy of Underwear Unlimited or some other seedy little top-shelf mag.”

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