Definition of "top dollar" []

• The highest amount being paid for a commodity or service: paid top dollar for the tickets. (noun)

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• "He stayed away from home under various pretexts, chief of which was coon hunting, and soon every slave in the area knew that Odell would pay top dollar for fresh-killed coon."