Usually means: Excessive, beyond normal limits, extravagant.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word over the top:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. over the top: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. over-the-top, over the top: Merriam-Webster
  3. over the top: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. over-the-top: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. over-the-top, over-the-top, over the top: Collins English Dictionary
  6. over-the-top: Vocabulary.com
  7. over the top: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. over-the-top, over the top: Wiktionary
  9. over-the-top: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. over-the-top, over the top: Dictionary.com
  11. Over the Top (Cozy Powell album), Over the Top (Infinite album), Over the Top (Mentors album), Over the Top (TV series), Over the Top (White Wizzard album), Over the Top (film), Over the Top (painting), Over the Top, Over the top (disambiguation), Over the top: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. over-the-top: Rhymezone
  13. over-the-top: FreeDictionary.org
  14. over-the-top: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Over the Top: The Word Detective
  16. over-the-top, over the top: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Over the top: Phrase Finder

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. over-the-top: Legal dictionary
  2. over-the-top: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. over-the-top: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. over-the-top: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. over-the-top, over the top: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. over the top: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. over the top: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (over the top)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Bold; beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous.
adjective:  (communication) Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.
adverb:  (not comparable, from World War I) Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack.
adverb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, top.

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