top out   (TTS Sound)

The verb top out has 3 senses

• top out -- (give up one's career just as one becomes very successful; "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out")


• top, top out -- (provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure); "the towers were topped with conical roofs")


• top out, peak -- (to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million")