Definition of "top out" [top out]

• To reach one's highest point (verb)
• To quit one's career while at a successful time. (verb)
• To complete construction of a tall building (verb)

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• "I lift the glass top out of the “White Night” bottle and touch it to Svetlana’s wrist, then to mine, so we can both pretend that we are elegant and worldly, that we belong in the previous century, that we know something about privacy."