Toper

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtəʊpÉ™/
• Rhymes: -əʊpÉ™(ɹ)

Origin

From tope + -er.

Full definition of toper

Noun

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.

Anagrams

• repot, tepor, trope