: extremely or excessively flamboyant or outrageous
an over-the-top performance

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Black-tie affairs, over-the-top birthdays, a grand night at the ballet, or a glitzy charity function? Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 May 2025 Unlike other more flouncy options, the ruffle detail here is shrunken down for some elegant, but not over-the-top character. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 May 2025 Rapper 2 Chainz is no stranger to over-the-top products and experiences. Charles Singh, USA Today, 24 May 2025 Eight years ago, Baz Luhrmann bought a mammoth 28-foot-wide townhouse in Gramercy Park for $13.5 million and renovated it in the distinctive, over-the-top manner familiar to anyone who has ever seen Moulin Rouge! Kim Velsey, Curbed, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for over-the-top

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of over-the-top was in 1980

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“Over-the-top.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/over-the-top. Accessed 31 May. 2025.

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