toper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated: a person who drinks alcohol heavily or habitually

   The inn's regular topers gathered near the fire each evening.

An agent noun formed from tope, 'to drink alcohol to excess,' + -er. The drinking verb is recorded from the seventeenth century and may derive from an obsolete toast or interjection used in pledging someone's health; its deeper origin is uncertain.

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