tope
verb (used without object)
to drink alcoholic liquor habitually and to excess.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Fie! young ladies mustn't rush in where gintlemen are toping.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield