tops-and-bottoms en · NOUN
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(archaic, plural, plural-only) Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in half, and browned in an oven. In 19th century Britain they were used as food for children.
'Tis said her tops-and-bottoms were gilt.
c. 1843, Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Egg: