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top banana definition

☆ top banana

  1. a top performer in show business; specif., the star comedian in a burlesque show
  2. the most important person in any group

Etymology: prob. so named from the banana-shaped soft club carried by burlesque comedians

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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