toper

Definition

Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

Etymology

From tope + -er.

Example Sentences

• "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, […]"