topper

noun

1. Something that is on top.
2. A top hat.
3. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
4. A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
6. The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
7. The head or chief of an organization.
8. A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
9. One who tops steel ingots.
10. A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
11. A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
12. Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
13. A fine or remarkable thing or person.
14. A blow on the head.
15. A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
16. A pencil sharpener.