tabletop

English

Tabletop of a Japanese chestnut table.

Etymology

table +‎ top

Noun

tabletop (plural tabletops)

1. (furniture) The flat, horizontal upper surface of a table.
2. (skateboarding) A fixed item resembling a table, used for performing skateboarding tricks.
3. (photography, advertising) A photograph of an object or product placed on a table.
   • 1946, U.S. Camera, volume 9, numbers 6-11, page 72:

     Photographic greeting cards are usually tabletops.

4. (roleplaying games) Ellipsis of tabletop game.
   • 2021, Dorian Sykes, The Good Life Part 2: The Re-Up:

     Some people watch TV, others play tabletops. You might like to work out. The object is to bide your time.

Translations

horizontal upper surface of a table

• Afrikaans: tafelblad
• Danish: bordplade c
• Finnish: pöytälevy (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bordplate m or f

  Nynorsk: bordplate f

• Polish: blat (pl) m
• Russian: столе́шница (ru) f (stoléšnica)
• Swedish: bordsskiva (sv) c
• Thai: พื้นโต๊ะ
• Turkish: masa tablası (tr)
• Ukrainian: стільни́ця f (stilʹnýcja)

Tabletop flags, small flags designed to sit on top of a table.

Adjective

tabletop (not comparable)

1. Suitable for use on top of a table.
2. Taking place on top of a table.

   tabletop photography

   tabletop gaming

Translations

suitable for use on the top of a table

• Bulgarian: за маса (za masa)
• Finnish: pöytä-
• French: de table
• Russian: насто́льный (ru) (nastólʹnyj)
• Thai: วางโต๊ะ, ตั้งโต๊ะ (dtâng-dtó), กระดาน (th) (grà-daan) (gaming):

Verb

tabletop (third-person singular simple present tabletops, present participle tabletopping, simple past and past participle tabletopped)

1. (roleplaying games, rare) To play tabletop games.

Anagrams

• pottable