toper
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊpə/
- Rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)
Noun
toper (plural topers)
- (now literary) Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons […]
- 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.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
Synonyms
- alcoholic, drunkard; tosspot; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Translations
drunkard — see drunkard
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