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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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
That distinction belongs to the workers at the Star Garden, a topless bar in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, which successfully unionized in May 2023 following an 18-month strike.
—James Factora, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
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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
That distinction belongs to the workers at the Star Garden, a topless bar in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, which successfully unionized in May 2023 following an 18-month strike.
—James Factora, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/topless. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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