Toper

Definitions

Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

literary

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Examples

“A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]”

“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.”

“[…] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get⟳ up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, […]”

““Well, if you ask⟳ me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.”

“George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy⟳ the line.”

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