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
A toping bookseller presented a check at the banking-house of Sir W. Curtis and Co., and upon the cashier putting the usual question, "How will you have it?" replied, "Cold, without sugar."
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
Anon, anon, sir," was a drawer at the Boar's Head, and quotes from that tombstone the following admonitory epitaph: "Bacchus, to give the toping world surprise, Produced one sober son, and here he lies.
From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley
But this mate of the brig Cohasset; this mate who commanded nosegays on natal occasions; this mate who inspired love, and brought bibulous tears to the eyes of this toping giant!
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
