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Examples of top banana in a Sentence
He's the mob's top banana.
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So which restaurant did Yelp readers declare top banana?
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Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2022
Guillermo Rodriguez always fancied himself as the top banana.
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Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 July 2019
This is, alas, the Yahweh of the early Hebrews, a fickle, petulant, seemingly amoral deity whose childish obsession is with proving himself top banana in the pantheon of primitive gods.
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Sam Sacks, WSJ, 12 July 2018
Companies, government agencies and institutes are spending millions of dollars on research and development to find a new top banana.
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Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
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Etymology
from a burlesque routine involving three comedians in which the one that gets the punch line also gets a banana
First Known Use
1947, in the meaning defined above
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“Top banana.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top%20banana. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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