top round

noun

: meat from the inner part of a round of beef

Examples of top round in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The beef and chicken examples in the table above are round or top round beef, choice grade, and skinless chicken breast, which are lean options. —Johna Burdeos, Health, 5 Mar. 2025

Storer uses beef chuck, but she’s also used top round or top sirloin roast. —Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024

The cut can be sirloin, ribeye, top round, or even flank or skirt steaks. —Hana Asbrink, Bon Appétit, 21 Sep. 2023

Stanhope Elmore’s Josiah Gilbert fired a 6-under par 66 on Tuesday to turn in the top round of the day as the AHSAA Sub-State golf playoffs continued across the state. —al, 26 Jan. 2023

Rub top round beef roast with salt and pepper. —Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2021

Although some butchers sell a cut of meat and call it a London broil, it’s almost always made using flank steak, top round, or another tough cut of beef. —Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 5 Feb. 2023

Like brisket, top round will absorb the smoke flavor and take on a smoke ring. —Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2021

The kitchen rubs top round with harissa and then cooks the beef slow in a low-temperature oven. —Washington Post, 16 June 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for top round

• abound
• aground
• around
• astound
• background
• campground
• clothbound
• confound
• earthbound
• eastbound
• expound
• fairground