top-notcher

And down here you're a top-notcher at your own game.

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Geoffrey Annersley discovered that young Holiday was rather by way of being a top-notcher.

Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

He's a classic winner, the very deuce of a top-notcher.

Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin

If he is a top-notcher in his profession he may get hold of ten or twenty of them: more probably he gets hold of two or three.

Confessions of a Book Reviewer 1946

You would have to be a top-notcher even to get into the £2,000 class.

As I Please 1944

It is said that a "top-notcher" would also have a diamond in her forehead.

The British Empire Exhibition, A Study in Geography, Resources, and Citizenship of the British Empire 1924

You're a top-notcher -- too fine for anything but the best.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

And down here you're a top-notcher at your own game.

Chapter 9 1913

Some fellow wrote once that unless you had football instinct you'd never make a real top-notcher.

The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

I'm pretty ambitious for that girl of mine and I shouldn't be satisfied short of a top-notcher.

Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907