silver top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver tops
Senses: coordinate_terms: green top
gold top
glosses: Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.
examples: text: Still I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the senility of the present Board of Overseers, […] as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals, that your Mr. Evarts 'was too old for a senator' and that he 'was too old to change his mind.' […] I contend that these charges are libellous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the Overseers. Still there are younger Alumni and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some of us silver-tops and insert some younger graduates. Remember, however, that 'striving to do better, oft we mar what's well.'
ref: 1885, Henry Lee, “[Speech to Harvard Club of New York]”, in John T. Morse, Jr., editor, Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, pages 135–136:
text: Just ask yourselves this question, you older men, you silver-tops here—What was done with toxic thyroid disease before men like Charles Mayo, the elder Kocher, Crile, Miles F. Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid upon a fairly rational basis?
ref: 1922 December, W. D. Gatch, J. R. Eastman (commentator), “Surgical Aspects of Endocrinology”, in Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, volume 15, number 12, Fort Wayne: The Association, →ISSN, page 429:
text: As we all become "Silver tops" as seniors are referred to, we all may have problems around our sexuality, not the least of being, can we get it and keep it up.
ref: 1997 June 12, Raj Secura, “Ann Lander bashes men (again)!”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: Biden is old enough to be Obama's daddy. In fact, I'm betting he and the white silver tops in the Democratic leadership were rooting for him because they're expecting to "own our boy" when he's in the WH.
ref: 2008 August 30, Joe Orthodox, “The Palin Pick”, in alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox (Usenet):
text: Peter's Aunt May also gets a lot more screen time in this installment, and she's always giving heartfelt advice. It's good to see a superhero movie finally giving some consideration to us "silver tops"!
ref: 2011, Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 260:
text: "It takes four years to get educated — we don't have four years. You know, us 'silver tops' are leaving the profession or retiring. I'm 60 and I'm still working," she said, adding she is delaying her retirement due to the challenges facing healthcare workers.
ref: 2022 October 13, Charlie Carey, quoting Kath-Ann Terrett, “B.C. nurses rally outside VCH, as Hospital Employees' Union ratifies new agreement”, in CityNews, Vancouver, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2023:
synonyms: word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: ;
word: geriatric#Noun
word: oldster
word: senior citizen
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
glosses: An old person.
Related terms: silverback
silver-haired
silverhead
silvery-haired
gray-haired
grey-haired