toper
noun
a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated; a heavy drinker.
topers
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pluralof toper.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He had slept late, hurried off to meet other malted-milk topers at the Purity Creamery, and angle for holiday dates.
From Time Magazine Archive
As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."
From Time Magazine Archive
Balding young Mario Vaselli, having already spent millions on a moviemaking enterprise, a pet soccer team and lavish parties for Roman topers at his Frascati vineyards, betook himself to Naples.
From Time Magazine Archive
New Orleans topers fared no worse than those of most other cities in the matter of prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
