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Webster 1913 Edition


Toper

To′per

(tō′pẽr)
,
Noun.
One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.

Webster 1828 Edition


Toper

TO'PER

,
Noun.
One who drinks to excess; a drunkard; a sot.

Definition 2024


toper

toper

English

Noun

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.

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Norman

Etymology

From English tope + -er.

Verb

toper

  1. (Jersey) to tope