over the top
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous.
- Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.
- Alternative form of over the top (see usage notes).
Adverb
- Egregiously; beyond compare.
- Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, top.
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