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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?
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2022
Guillermo Rodriguez always fancied himself as the top banana.
—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.
—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.
—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 22 Dec. 2024.
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