topless

adjective

top·​less ˈtäp-ləs 

1

a

: wearing no clothing on the upper body

b

: featuring topless waitresses or entertainers

topless bars

c

: being a place where topless women are permitted

a topless beach

2

: being without a top

3

archaic : so high as to reach up beyond sight

and burnt the topless towers of Ilium

—Christopher Marlowe

toplessness

ˈtäp-ləs-nəs 

noun

Examples of topless in a Sentence

She likes to go topless on the beach.

Recent Examples on the Web

Much of the credit for that unexpected metamorphosis goes to Gersten, who muscled her way into a subgenre — the topless temptation — once dominated by men. —Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025

Not your money, not the old casino hotels on the Strip, and not the topless revues that, for decades, defined Sin City in a rhinestone nutshell. —Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025

Jonathan Bailey has always flatly refused to pose topless on a shoot. —Vassi Chamberlain, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024

And there’s Hot Frosty, the story of lonely widow Kathy (played by Mean Girls’ Lacey Chabert) who finds comfort in a handsome (again, initially topless) male stranger, who turns out to be a snowman brought to life. —Charley Ross, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1589, in the meaning defined at sense 2