tope
verb (used without object)
to drink alcoholic liquor habitually and to excess.
toping
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present participleof tope.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Two years later he is toping and caroling in an inn, faced with ruin and the loss of Jean Armour, whose father will not let him marry her.
From Time Magazine Archive
What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"And then, the filthy, toping rioters—" she continued, exalting her voice.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
When we—that is, Vliet and I and his three toping companions—re-entered the room, one of them handed me my coat, but I did not put it on, for it was drenched with the rain.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
