top out

phrasal verb

topped out; topping out; tops out

: to reach the highest amount or level and stop increasing

—often + at

Interest rates are expected to top out at 15 percent.

Examples of top out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That metric topped out around 2 during the dot-com boom, and at just over 3 during the pandemic’s frothy markets and muted economy. —Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025

While most 200-horsepower sport bikes top out around 190 mph, Indian’s Challenger is a bagger that can rival them straight down the salt flats. —Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025

Kondap, in a conversation with us, maintained that some ISV’s AI workloads today are already topping out the 45 TOPS of the original X Elite. —Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025

High temperatures were expected to stay cooler than normal through the weekend, with Phoenix topping out around 90. —Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for top out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout