<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>ranked among the highest, as in ability, performance, comprehensiveness, or quality: His work is tops. That car is tops.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb:</strong></p><ul><li>at a maximum; at most: It'll take an hour, tops. I'll give you $25 for that, tops.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the tops.</li><li>top 1 (def 22).</li></ul>