toper

English

Etymology

From tope +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊpə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊpɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)

Noun

toper (plural topers)

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness:

     A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 16:

     The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and How They Sang and Discoursed Together”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 304:

     […] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons. […]

   • 1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156:

     “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.

Translations

drunkard — see drunkard

Anagrams

• -trope, Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, trope

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from top +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.pe/

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Verb

toper

1. to agree, consent
2. to shake on it
3. (climbing) to top out

Conjugation

Conjugation of toper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	toper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	topant /tɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		topé /tɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tope /tɔp/	topes /tɔp/	tope /tɔp/	topons /tɔ.pɔ̃/	topez /tɔ.pe/	topent /tɔp/
	imperfect	topais /tɔ.pɛ/	topais /tɔ.pɛ/	topait /tɔ.pɛ/	topions /tɔ.pjɔ̃/	topiez /tɔ.pje/	topaient /tɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	topai /tɔ.pe/	topas /tɔ.pa/	topa /tɔ.pa/	topâmes /tɔ.pam/	topâtes /tɔ.pat/	topèrent /tɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	toperai /tɔ.pʁe/	toperas /tɔ.pʁa/	topera /tɔ.pʁa/	toperons /tɔ.pʁɔ̃/	toperez /tɔ.pʁe/	toperont /tɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toperais /tɔ.pʁɛ/	toperais /tɔ.pʁɛ/	toperait /tɔ.pʁɛ/	toperions /tɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	toperiez /tɔ.pə.ʁje/	toperaient /tɔ.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tope /tɔp/	topes /tɔp/	tope /tɔp/	topions /tɔ.pjɔ̃/	topiez /tɔ.pje/	topent /tɔp/
	imperfect2	topasse /tɔ.pas/	topasses /tɔ.pas/	topât /tɔ.pa/	topassions /tɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	topassiez /tɔ.pa.sje/	topassent /tɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tope /tɔp/	—	topons /tɔ.pɔ̃/	topez /tɔ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “toper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From English tope + -er.

Verb

toper

1. (Jersey) to tope