tope

• (General American) IPA^(key): /toʊp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp
• Homophone: taupe

Uncertain. Perhaps from an alteration of top (off), or perhaps borrowed from French toper.

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

1. (archaic) To drink excessively; to get drunk.

• toper

tope (plural topes)

1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.

From Tamil.

tope (plural topes)

1. (India) A grove of trees.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Whitworth to this entry?)

   • 2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India

     In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.

Probably from Pali, ultimately cognate to stupa.

tope (plural topes)

1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

• Pote, poet, pote, poët

tope

1. meat

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

tope f pl

1. plural of topa

• peto, poté

tope

1. Alternative form of top

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔpi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔpɨ/
• Hyphenation: to‧pe

tope m (plural topes)

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Onomatopoeic top, whence topar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtope/, [ˈt̪ope]
• Hyphenation: to‧pe

tope m (plural topes)

1. butt, end, butt end
2. top, limit
3. stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
4. collision
5. quarrel, fight
6. reinforcement
7. (railway) buffer, bumper
8. (nautical) masthead, lookout
9. (Mexico) speed bump
10. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) equestrian parade usually held on the first day of a festival

• borda f (Honduras)
• túmulo m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras)

• a tope

“tope” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

tope

1. (colloquial, Spain) really

   Es tope feo

   He's dead ugly

tope

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of topar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of topar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of topar.

tope (ma class, plural matope)

1. mud

tope f (plural toopn, diminutive tooptje)

1. vole
2. shrew

• tolpe