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Noun:
- Abbreviated form of flattop grill.
- US A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top
- US informal An aircraft carrier; origin credited since 1942 to a laconic message, ?Scratch one flattop,? radioed by LCDR Robert E. Dixon to USS Lexington, whose commanding officer credited the pilot with coining the standard USN slang; see Wikipedia for Battle of Coral Sea
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