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top banana

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top banana noun
plural top bananas
top banana
noun
plural top bananas
Learner's definition of TOP BANANA
[count] informal
: the most important or powerful person in a group or organization头头;老大;老板

top banana

noun

: the leading comedian in a burlesque show
broadly : kingpin sense 1

Example Sentences

He's the mob's top banana.
Recent Examples on the Web So which restaurant did Yelp readers declare top banana? Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2022 Guillermo Rodriguez always fancied himself as the top banana. Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 July 2019 This is, alas, the Yahweh of the early Hebrews, a fickle, petulant, seemingly amoral deity whose childish obsession is with proving himself top banana in the pantheon of primitive gods. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 12 July 2018 Companies, government agencies and institutes are spending millions of dollars on research and development to find a new top banana. Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017

Word History

Etymology

from a burlesque routine involving three comedians in which the one that gets the punch line also gets a banana

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of top banana was in 1952

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