Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A perennial grass (Agrostis gigantea) with reddish spikelets, native to Eurasia and widely cultivated for forage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of bent-grass, Agrostis vulgaris (A. alba, var. vulgaris).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A kind of grass (
Agrostis vulgaris ) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called alsoEnglish grass , and in some localitiesherd's grass . SeeIllustration in Appendix. The tall redtop isTriodia seslerioides .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A kind of
grass (Agrostis vulgaris ) highly valued in theUnited States forpasturage and hay forcattle . - noun countable Species of the genus
Agrostis , the bentgrasses.
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Examples
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Rhode Island Bent, known as redtop, is less exacting, and where it thrives to the exclusion of timothy, or is in evidence in grass lands, the inference is fairly safe that a test would show that the soil is sour.
Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900
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Dodgy UK daily "redtop" tabloid The Sun has amazed Fall fans the world over by placing the band at number three in their Boxset of the Year awards in today's edition.
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What is true is that, time and again, they import hardened redtop operators from the UK or Australia to fight their editorial battles for them.
Colin Myler heads to New York for the clash of the newspaper dinosaurs 2012
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This isn't like a Sunday redtop slapping "Exclusive" on every tatty tale in town.
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But it's no surprise that the redtop made an exception for Femen last year.
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Many redtop and mid-market editors, if asked, would opt to be called tradespeople, not professionals.
PCC reform needs input from redtops and mid-market newspapers 2011
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And that the redtop tabloids Rebekah left behind were up 1.37% on February and only 3.11% down year on year, so they aren't out of the game yet by any means.
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We – or so we are told - all have said this for years, "but when the by-far-the-biggest non-redtop endorses it," it is a cause for celebration.
It ain't Brussels, stoopid! Richard 2006
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I don't read the Times, it's a redtop without the red bit on the cover.
She who wants it all, risks it all Ms Robinson 2008
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And, while the "frightened fifteen", clutching their "lucky bags" revel in the warm embrace of their mummies and daddies, and sundry other "loved ones", the redtop has made it clear it sees a link between the bomb in Basra and what it calls the "Tehran tyrant".
Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007
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