topping
Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
Example
“Pepperoni and mushrooms are common pizza toppings.”
Other meanings
The act of cutting off the top of something.
The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
A kind of
- garnish
Kinds of topping
- ice
- glaze
- meringue
- whipped cream
Related words
- topping cycle
Word history
From Middle English "toppyng".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “topping” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.