toples
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɔp̚ləs]
- Hyphenation: top‧lês
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔp.lɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɔplɛs
- Syllabification: top‧les
- Homophone: topless
Declension
Further reading
- toples in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoples/ [ˈt̪o.ples]
- Rhymes: -oples
- Syllabification: to‧ples
Adjective
toples (invariable)
- topless (exposing one's bare chest)
- 2013 August 16, Laura Campmany, “¿Si hay playas nudistas, por qué no hay playas para toples?”, in El Periodico:
- Nosotros no tenemos la costumbre de hacer toples ni nos gusta tomar el sol rodeados de gente que lo practique, y cada año nos cuesta más encontrar un sitio de nuestro agrado.
- We don't customarily go topless nor do we like sunbathing surronded by people who do practise it, and every year we find it more difficult to find a place to our liking.
- 2012 September 17, “La ‘reina’ Kate, desnuda también en Italia”, in El Pais:
- "Se ha cruzado la línea roja", advirtieron los portavoces de la casa real británica al ver las primeras imágenes en toples de Catalina.
- "A red line has been crossed", warned the spokespersons of the royal household upon seeing the first topless images of Princess Kate.
- 2007, Luis Artigue, Las perlas del loco, page 62:
- Respiró con ansia al salir y nadó hacia la orilla, se puso en pie y entonces acertó a ver que se encontraba en una playa del Caribe llena de mulatas en toples.
- He breathed anxiously when he left and swam towards the shore, got to his feet and then happened to see that he found himself on a beach in the Caribbean full of topless mulatto women.
Further reading
- “toples”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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