rooftop

From roof +‎ top.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːfˌtɒp/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹufˌtɑp/, /ˈɹʊfˌtɑp/

rooftop (plural rooftops)

1. (somewhat formal) The area atop a roof.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 47:

     In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!

   • 1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades:

     Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 79–80:

     Riding the District west of Hammersmith, you immediately know something exciting is coming up, because at Ravenscourt Park you are level with the rooftops.

2. The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
   • 2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts:

     The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.

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• “rooftop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.