1. In refference to the publications located on said shelf.

2. Meaning good.
1.
Patron: "where iz da porn innit"
Clerk: "on the top shelf"

2.
bloke: "you got the deal"
Alan Partridge: "Top shelf!"
by pab June 30, 2004
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Contrary to popular opinion, Top Shelf is actually a high-five maneuver, usually given as a command... Not to be confused with the low or mid versions of the "five"
Also synonymous with Fiver
"Dude, I can't believe your boinking that chick from behind while I'm pumpin her mouth, "Top Shelf dude!" *clap*
(this in turn creates the coveted H-Clap
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The highest quality that is usually only liquor. Usually the liquor is literally on the top shelf.
Give me your top shelf vodka.
by Travis Sickle June 30, 2004
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aka a floater, boat or lincolin log poop

you can easily form these by:
1 before pooping cover the toilet water with toilet paper. enough so it can withstain a gaint load.
2 then POOP POOP and POOP some more.
3 DO NOT FLUSH! thats the important part.
This makes it so the log you just left will poke out of the toilet and stink like shit
by Phill De Conick March 17, 2005
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Words used by chain bars such as "Chevy's" to add $3.00 more to what essentially a slurpee with a touch of tequila.
Waitress: "Make it a top shelf blue agave colored salt margarita?"

Customer: "Sure, it's only $9.50"
by Mark Rave July 02, 2004
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many interpretations can be derived from the saying top shelf
1. something is pretty shit hot.
2. to describe material of a sexually explicit nature that is stored in the highest point of a shop.
and my old favourite;
3. to describe a female as being rather atractive in a sexully stimulating way
1. that shot you took was top shelf old boy
2. that dirty old cunt reads from the top shelf
3. A:"fuck me she is top shelf! marks out of ten i'd give her one."
B:"not half! woof!"
by tentius maximus July 01, 2004
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