TOP-HEAVY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does top-heavy mean? 

• TOP-HEAVY (adjective)
  The adjective TOP-HEAVY has 1 sense:

1. unstable by being overloaded at the top

  Familiarity information: TOP-HEAVY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOP-HEAVY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unstable by being overloaded at the top

Similar:

unstable (lacking stability or fixity or firmness)

 Context examples 

It would have required an experienced man to keep the top-heavy sled upright, and Hal was not such a man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She never finds herself very soon, so the minute her cap began to bob like a top-heavy dahlia, I whipped the Vicar of Wakefield out of my pocket, and read away, with one eye on him and one on Aunt.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I was just a-wonderin’, that is all. It seemed a mite top-heavy.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)