Usually means: Disproportionately weighted towards the top.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word top-heavy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. top-heavy: Merriam-Webster
  2. top-heavy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. top-heavy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. top-heavy, top-heavy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. top-heavy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Top-heavy, top-heavy: Wordnik
  7. top-heavy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. top-heavy: Wiktionary
  9. top-heavy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. top-heavy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. top-heavy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. top-heavy: Dictionary.com
  13. top-heavy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Top-heavy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. top-heavy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. top-heavy: Rhymezone
  17. Top-heavy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. top-heavy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Top-heavy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. top-heavy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. top-heavy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. top-heavy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Top-heavy: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Top-Heavy: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. top-heavy: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  having a high centre of gravity, and liable to topple
adjective:  (of an organization) having an excessive number of administrators or managers
adjective:  (of a retirement plan) Having a significant portion of the plan assets allocated to key employees to the detriment of lower-wage employees.
adjective:  (of a person, typically a woman) having a disproportionately large upper body, especially the bust
adjective:  (slang) Drunk.

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