toper

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tope +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

toper (plural topers)

  1. (now literary) Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      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.

Translations[edit]

drunkard — see drunkard

Anagrams[edit]

Jèrriais[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English tope +‎ -er.

Verb[edit]

toper

  1. to tope
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