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Definition of Toping
1. tope [v] - See also: tope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toping
Literary usage of Toping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best by Henry Playford, Thomas D'Urfey (1720)
"A Fig for the Spaniard, and for the King of France, And Heaven preserve our Juggs,
and Muggs, and Q—n And a toping, &c. [from all mischance, Against the ..."
2. The Songs of Charles Dibdin: Chronologically Arranged, with Notes by Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth (1848)
"THE ADVANTAGES OF toping. -ч—ч is—5—ч ^L > SB^^ «—•• ht« . pid fel-low; For
if 'tis true that he al ..."
3. The Sham Squire: And the Informers of 1798. With a View of Their by William John Fitzpatrick (1866)
"toping SEVENTY YEARS AGO. It did not need the example of the Duke of Rutland to
make hard drinking the fashion in Ireland. The anecdote, " Had you any ..."
4. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"And, oh! when tolls the mournful knell That sounds my spirit's flight on high,
A toping WE WILL GO. COME, all ye jolly Bacchanals, That love to tope good ..."
5. The Vocal Magazine: Or, Compleat British Songster (1781)
"And a toping, tec. In times of old I was a fool, 1 drank the water clear; ...
And a toping, iic. He fill'da goblet to the brim, And bade me take a fup ..."
6. Merry Songs and Ballads, Prior to the Year 1800 edited by John Stephen Farmer (1897)
"Of all sorts of Topers, a Soph is far the best, For 'till he can neither go nor
stand, by Jove he's ne'er at rest, And a toping we will go, &c. ..."
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