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black top en · NOUN

British middle-market newspapers, such as the Daily Mail and Daily Express, typically present their titles in bold black letters.

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blacktop.
alt of blacktop
- One day the county put the word out that they was going to put down black top on the rock roads. 2007, Lee Wells, Escape From Mississippi:
- Rolling down the black top little white broken lines swiftly passing my face, I look like I'm going through a time warp slicing through the darkness of space. 2012, Ron Hester, Inside My Mind, page 203:
- Maybe they will pass a bill requiring an investigation into just how much black top and concrete is used in the transportation system. 2008, Floyd Grooms, Global Warming, A Different Approach, page 12:
(UK, uncommon) A middle-market tabloid; a tabloid newspaper aimed at the middle class, perceived as having intermediate journalistic standards between a broadsheet and a red top.
- Tabloid-style journalism exists in many societies, but the various elements that co-exist in a red-top or black-top are found on separate platforms in other countries. 2020 June 9, Steve Buckledee, Tabloiding the Truth: It's the Pun Wot Won It, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 2:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, top.

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black tops	Number=Plur		lexicographic

British middle-market newspapers, such as the Daily Mail and Daily Express, typically present their titles in bold black letters.

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blacktop.
alt of blacktop
- The State will black top the road and stabilize the shoulders before returning it to the town. 1969, Annual Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Steuben County:
- We won't black top your property for you because this is your own property, but we will loan you the money interest free if you will black top your driveway, providing you will give us another lease on that other 50 feet of land that you bought free. 1955, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Distribution Problems, page 1025:
- The PWD will black top the road and immediately either the PHED or Power Corporation will dig up the road to lay pipes or cables. 2015, Ningthouja Lancha, Kangla Lanpung Volume XI Issue 1: Winter 2015:

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black tops	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
black topped	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
black topped	Tense=Past	lexicographic
black topping	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic