High quality alcohol. The most expensive of it's type.
Get me a Grey Goose and cranberry. I only drink top shelf Vodka.
person 1: I got wasted off of cheap Tequila last weekend. I had a nasty hangover!
person 2: Well, that's what you get for not drinking top shelf.
When something or someone is as good as it can be
That's a top shelf Mercedes
That's a top shelf black girl
Great or best, highest in quality and value.
The really top-shelf stores are all on Rodeo Drive.
Of high quality.
Theis drink has a premium price because it's made with top shelf liquor.
The sport of taking off the porcelain lid of the toilet tank and pooping in the tank of the toilet, thus causing the toilet's owner many days of dirty flushing and unexplained stench.
Top-shelfing
Example 1:
"Dude, I heard you got fired last week...sorry to hear that."
"That's OK man, I top-shelfed them before I left."
Example 2:
"Damn, Jimmy your apartment stinks!"
"Did Sarah top-shelf you when you broke up with her?"
The most expensive liquor in the bar, located on the top shelf because it is rarley ordered.
Wiatress: Would you like our top shelf martini?
Bob: Fuck not that shit's expensive.
Cream of the crop, of extraordinary quality.
The phrase is derived, not from the position of premium bottles in liquor stores, but their position behind bars. (as opposed to "well" liquors, which are stored in the bartender's speedrack well, and "call" liquors, which are popular but not displayed (and which must be "called").
Man, this Hennessey is top-shelf.