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toper

[ toh-per ]

noun

Literary.
  1. a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated; a heavy drinker.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of toper1

First recorded in 1665–75; tope 1 + -er 1
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For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell.

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His drinks column for the Observer's food magazine was an engaging confection of wit, doom and fantasy, as it would be from a such a seasoned toper.

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Meanwhile, Labour is trying to paint the prime minister as a crazed video-game addicted toper who "rants at the dispatch box", as the shadow leader of the house, Angela Eagle, put it on Thursday.

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The habitually temperate man, when he does casually exceed, shows his condition very promptly; the habitual toper can dissemble it far longer.

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Barely had Merry started to question the old toper when Hodge, Ready, and Gallup appeared, hurrying forward.

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