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Definition of Toper
1. Noun. A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess).
Generic synonyms: Consumer
Specialized synonyms: Bar Fly, Ale Drinker, Beer Drinker, Drunk, Drunk, Drunkard, Inebriate, Rummy, Sot, Wino, Guzzler, Moderationist, Bacchanal, Bacchant, Drunken Reveler, Drunken Reveller, Social Drinker, Tippler, Carouser, Wassailer
Derivative terms: Drink, Drink, Imbibe, Imbibe, Tope
Antonyms: Nondrinker
Definition of Toper
1. n. One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
Definition of Toper
1. Noun. (context: now literary) Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toper
1. one that topes [n -S] - See also: topes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toper
Literary usage of Toper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1865)
"It is called " The toper." It is beautifully painted, but the subject is only
... And what is a toper ? " do yon say. He is one who is fond of the bottle, ..."
2. In College Days: Recent Varsity Verse by Joseph Le Roy Harrison (1901)
"Brother toper, fill your cup; (Life is brimming full of woe. ... How then forget
I Brother toper, what are years Seen across the sun-rise glow Of the wine ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... toper-pointed, rounded at base, mostly oblique, thin, and smooth ; fruit small.
—Chiefly in rich bottom-lands, s. lud. to Mo. (Bush), and s. to Fla. and ..."
4. The Book of Old Edinburgh: With Historical Accounts of the Buildings Therein by John Charles Dunlop, Alison Hay Dunlop (1896)
"From the opened south window the father cried, 'Turn your hand,' the perpetual
ower-word for the opening of the FOLLOWING THE toper DOWN-STAIRS, ..."
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