toper

From tope +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊpə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊpɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)

toper (plural topers)

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness:

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

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 16:

     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.

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating how Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and how They Sang and Discoursed Together”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 304:

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

   • 1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156:

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

   • 1953 March, Baynham Honri, “Filming "The Titfield Thunderbolt"”, in Railway Magazine, page 164:

     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.

• -trope, ptero-, Porte, Perot, trope, Petro, retop, petro-, repot, petro, tepor, opter

Onomatopoeic, from top +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.pe/

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toper

1. to agree, consent
2. to shake on it
3. (climbing) to top out

• “toper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English tope + -er.

toper

1. (Jersey) to tope