Flattop

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  • noun. An aircraft carrier.
  • noun. A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up and cropped flat across the top.
  • noun. An acoustic guitar having a flat piece of wood on the side where the strings are, a single sound hole in the center of the body, and a bridge attached just below the sound hole.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An American perennial herb, Vernonia Noveboracensis. Also called iron-weed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An aircraft carrier.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top
  • noun. (informal) An aircraft carrier; origin credited since 1942 to a laconic message, “Scratch one flattop,” radioed by LCDR Robert E. Dixon to USS Lexington, whose commanding officer credited the pilot with coining the standard USN slang; see Wikipedia for Battle of Coral Sea
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  • noun. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
  • noun. a closely cropped haircut; usually for men
  • Word Usage
    "First some background from Jim Comish, executive director of AMSE: The museum has just opened a new exhibit featuring an original B-1 model house, known as a flattop because of its flat, tar roof."
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