topsy
📖 Definitions
noun
Something growing without intention or direction.
💬 Usage Examples
“The securities lending business had grown like topsy without any proper supervision, ballooning to as much as $2 billion.” Ben Butler; Fast Cars, Big Houses, Hot Money; The Australian (Canberra); Sep 13, 2018. “But [Channel 4 is] also that uniquely British thing: a hodge podge that works, an institution you couldn’t invent because, somehow, it’s just grown.
Topsy TV.” Peter Preston; If Channel 4 Didn’t Exist, You Couldn’t Invent It; The Independent (London, UK); May 10, 2016.