toper

English

Etymology

From tope +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊpə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊpɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)

Noun

toper (plural topers)

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness:

     A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 16:

     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.

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating how Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and how They Sang and Discoursed Together”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 304:

     […] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, […]

   • 1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156:

     “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.

   • 1953 March, Baynham Honri, “Filming "The Titfield Thunderbolt"”, in Railway Magazine, page 164:

     George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.

Translations

drunkard — see drunkard

Anagrams

• -trope, ptero-, Porte, Perot, trope, Petro, retop, petro-, repot, petro, tepor, opter

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from top +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.pe/

• Audio:

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Verb

toper

1. to agree, consent
2. to shake on it
3. (climbing) to top out

Conjugation

Conjugation of toper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	toper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	topant /tɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		topé /tɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tope /tɔp/	topes /tɔp/	tope /tɔp/	topons /tɔ.pɔ̃/	topez /tɔ.pe/	topent /tɔp/
	imperfect	topais /tɔ.pɛ/	topais /tɔ.pɛ/	topait /tɔ.pɛ/	topions /tɔ.pjɔ̃/	topiez /tɔ.pje/	topaient /tɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	topai /tɔ.pe/	topas /tɔ.pa/	topa /tɔ.pa/	topâmes /tɔ.pam/	topâtes /tɔ.pat/	topèrent /tɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	toperai /tɔ.pʁe/	toperas /tɔ.pʁa/	topera /tɔ.pʁa/	toperons /tɔ.pʁɔ̃/	toperez /tɔ.pʁe/	toperont /tɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toperais /tɔ.pʁɛ/	toperais /tɔ.pʁɛ/	toperait /tɔ.pʁɛ/	toperions /tɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	toperiez /tɔ.pə.ʁje/	toperaient /tɔ.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tope /tɔp/	topes /tɔp/	tope /tɔp/	topions /tɔ.pjɔ̃/	topiez /tɔ.pje/	topent /tɔp/
	imperfect2	topasse /tɔ.pas/	topasses /tɔ.pas/	topât /tɔ.pa/	topassions /tɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	topassiez /tɔ.pa.sje/	topassent /tɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tope /tɔp/	—	topons /tɔ.pɔ̃/	topez /tɔ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “toper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From English tope + -er.

Verb

toper

1. (Jersey) to tope