crop top

noun

plural crop tops

: a short upper-body garment that does not cover the midriff

Examples of crop top in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lotus’s Kelly is more comfortable with expressing a level of queerness, unzipping a gray sweatshirt to reveal a pink crop top, whereas Gbaje’s Quentavius is more bottled up. —Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2025

While competing at the junior and collegiate level, Broomfield coined her signature look: using a hair tie to create a makeshift crop top nearly every match. —Ruth Etiesit Samuel, Essence, 2 June 2025

Key pieces include a pleated mini skirt paired with a matching crop top that captures the playful yet polished vibe of the collaboration. —Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025

This spirit of elegant, everyday adornment stands in sharp contrast to the Y2K era of crop tops and low-rise jeans, Wallner says, when people actually needed something to tell the time, and therefore gravitated towards eye-popping, in-your-face, men’s styles. —Talia Abbas, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for crop top

• atop
• backdrop
• backstop
• bebop
• blacktop
• bookshop
• clatsop
• desktop
• eavesdrop
• estop
• hardtop
• hilltop