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Meaning of top shelf | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

top speed top tier top-age top-class top-dimensional top-down

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