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Definition of "over-the-top" [over-the-top]

  • Exceeding the normal bounds; immoderate; extravagant: "The hotel pours it on. You're in for an over-the-top experience” ( Travel & Leisure). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "over-the-top" in a sentence
  • "Increasingly devices such as tablets, PCs, mobile phones, car systems and home products are network connected, so that you can download content from the Internet or what they call over-the-top content, directly to a device and play it back in high-quality DTS sound."
  • "Instead of renting Carnegie Hall, however, Vice is hosting what it is calling an "over-the-top, unnecessarily lavish to-do" in Brooklyn."
  • "The style in Burkeville could be described as over-the-top, and how well this meshes with farm food depends on the dish."
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