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Flat top

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ5457852
Source-derived summary

A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle.

Flat top, Flattop, or Flat Top may also refer to:

Places

Flat Top (Ross Dependency), the tallest peak in the Commonwealth Range in Antarctica, rising to 4,000 metres (13,123 ft)

Flat Top (Coats Land), table mountain in Coats Land, Antarctica

Flat Top (Georgia), a mountain in Rabun County, Georgia, U.S.

Flat Top, Jefferson County, Alabama

Flat Top, Virginia

Flat Top, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States

Flat Top Island, Tasmania

Flat Top Island, Queensland

Flat Top Manor, manor near Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Flattop Island, in the San Juan Islands of the U.S. state of Washington.

Flattop Island (Nunavut), Canada

Flattop Mountain, name shared by many mountains and buttes in the United States

Other uses

A term for an Aircraft carrier.

Flat Top (film), a 1952 film starring Sterling Hayden as an aircraft carrier commander

Flat Top (song), a song by the Goo Goo Dolls

Flat-Top (comics), a fictional character published by Harvey Comics

Flat top guitar, a type of guitar body model

Flattop (Dick Tracy villain), full name Flattop Jones

Flattop (Transformers), a member of the Micromasters

Flattop, another name for an aircraft carrier

Flattop grill, a cooking appliance

A name for a jointer woodworking tool

Flattop (critical assembly), an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory

A term used for table mountains or mesas

A term used to describe vintage cars rooftop lines (e.g.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Flat top” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Flat, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5457852. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from Flat top” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.