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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

What's the meaning

of tops and down stream here?

"He is like 15 yards tops from the boat. I've looked a little bit into swallowing water - but I don't understand how the kid couldn't swim to the boat, it was like 3 or four strokes tops. And why couldn't he yell. For some reason I keep thinking about it. By the time they realized he was down, they looked for him but couldn't find him. He turned up down stream at the bottom, 3 days later."

Thanks a million!
  

Top answer

Hi, tops - maximum down-stream - further down the river, in the direction that the water was flowing. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, tops - maximum down-stream - further down the river, in the direction that the water was flowing.
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3 Answers
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Hi,

tops - maximum

down-stream - further down the river, in the direction that the water was flowing.

Clive
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Hi,
Tops - at the very most; not more than 15 yards in that context
Turned up - was found
Downstream - the direction in which the river was flowing

Regards
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