over the top

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous. idiomatic
    — I had come to regard the New Capitalism as an experiment till, in 1929, the whole thing went over the top and slid down to an utter collapse.
  2. Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.
    — The question was you don't have to hard cut the network over from proprietary to open. You can actually do it in stages and this device can lay over the top of existing proprietary networks.
  3. Downward onto plants in the field, as contrasted with other routes of administration.
    — over-the-top dicamba for dicamba-tolerant crops
副词 adv.
  1. Egregiously; beyond compare.
    — On InfoWars, Alex Jones told his audience, "This is over the top sickening. Next they'll say Jeffrey Epstein never even existed. This is the swamp winning. No one is buying this."
  2. Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack. World-War-I,not-comparable
    — The men were sent over the top to their certain death.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, top.

词形变化

more over the top comparative most over the top superlative over-the-top alternative more over the top comparative most over the top superlative over-the-top alternative more over the top comparative most over the top superlative over-the-top alternative

词汇关系

相关词
set-top box

词源

词源 1
The adjectival form first appears c. 1935. See cite below. The adverbial form (in reference to World War I) first appears c. 1915.
词源 2
The adjectival form first appears c. 1935. See cite below. The adverbial form (in reference to World War I) first appears c. 1915.
词源 3
The adjectival form first appears c. 1935. See cite below. The adverbial form (in reference to World War I) first appears c. 1915.
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