This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience. 1938, Motion Picture Herald, volume 132, numbers 7-13, page 61:
Everyone who has ever eaten a torte loves it. It is tops in the dessert field. 1944 February 2, Katherine Kitchen, “Favorite Recipes: A Sweet Little Blitz!”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 173, number 28,188, Sacramento, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 4:
Joe Issenberg, Al Kahn, A. Amato and B. B. Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place. 1958 May 5, Billboard, page 139:
But if you feel like sitting down for an evening of *cinema* (or just wanna put something on in the background that you can make out to) sexy movies are kinda tops. 2022 November 22, Katherine J Igoe, Rachel Varina, “20 Sexiest Movies of 2022 and Where You Can Stream ’Em All Yourself”, in Cosmopolitan:
(informal, not-comparable) At the very most; as a maximum.
Your essay should be two pages, tops.
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es como mucho (maximum) · nl maximaal (maximum) · nl hooguit (maximum) · pl góra (maximum) · nl maximum (maximum) · fi korkeintaan (maximum) · fi enintään (maximum) · sv högst (maximum) · sv max (maximum)