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verb təʊptoʊp [no object]archaic, literary Drink alcohol to excess, especially on a regular basis. 〈古或诗/文〉（尤指经常）过多地喝酒；酗酒 he was toping the while from a flagon of sack Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
Derivativesnoun ˈtəʊpəˈtoʊpər literary, archaic Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life. Example sentencesExamples - Jack is thick with Joxer, his fellow toper and toady, an even worse parasite than the Captain off whom he scrounges.
- Turns out Kamal was the dead husband's best friend, and that this noble fellow is a heavy toper.
- Two old stagers John Joe and Timmy (no strangers to the Boards) held the audience captive with their piece about the temperate and the toper.
- He looks at the spectator good-naturedly and unintelligently, with the suspicious expression of an inveterate toper [habitual drinker].
- And if that had happened, the unfortunate topers up there would have been suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
- And when the long-awaited idea finally comes, it gets gratefully nursed like a drink by a penniless toper unable to pay for a refill.
- He said that, as a barrister, he had once, along with the late Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, a celebrated toper, defended a man who had fired two shotgun cartridges into a crowded pub.
- Another toper, incapable of standing, is solicitously helped by his friends through the gate of the innyard.
- A third toper bawls out a song not much esteemed, evidently, by his companions, who ignore him.
- It is a world of hermetic luxury in which a white-suited pianist picks out smoochy tunes, Claudius and Gertrude are sensual topers, Polonius a daughter-abuser, and Ophelia a flighty number who sings ‘My heart belongs to Daddy‘.
- One of them asks all serious topers to banish moderate drinkers from parties and to drink until speech becomes impaired and walking impossible.
- He seemed so sour that I hardly recognized him as the same friendly toper I'd been with the night before.
- As an example, it offers cans of beer at 10p, litre boxes of wine at 30p and white rum at 2 a bottle, prices that would delight the most budget-minded Maryhill toper.
- He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner, and two wonderful mugs, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, painted with children as topers outside a tavern.
- Furtive and nimble tipplers and topers nightly dodged through alleys and back yards under the noses of the flashlamp-carrying guards.
- Indeed, he mounts a mild harangue against the temperance movement, which he argues ‘may preach till doom's day; and still this cold and barren world will look warmer, kindlier, mellower, through the medium of a toper's glass’.
- Instead of looking as pale and cadaverous as a ghost, my countenance is as ruby as the face of a whiskey toper, simply because I get pure air to breathe.
- Not likely, since neither Brown nor Rankin is especially noted as a toper.
- Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
OriginMid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of obsolete top 'overbalance'; perhaps from Dutch toppen 'slant or tilt a ship's yard'. Rhymesaslope, cope, dope, elope, grope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, soap, taupe, trope OriginFrom Punjabi thūp, thop 'barrow, mound', apparently related to Sanskrit stūpa. noun təʊptoʊp (in South Asia) a grove or plantation of trees, especially mango trees. （印度次大陆的）小树林（尤指芒果林） Example sentencesExamples - In 1894, Rice reported that there were about 2000 topes with about 100,000 trees in the entire Bangalore District.
Synonyms plantation, farm, holding
OriginFrom Telugu tōpu or Tamil tōppu. noun təʊptoʊp A small greyish slender-bodied shark, occurring chiefly in inshore waters. 翅鲨 Genus Galeorhinus, family Carcharhinidae: the East Atlantic G. galeus, favoured by British sea anglers, and the commercially important G. australis of Australia Example sentencesExamples - What looked like a cross between a tope and a bull huss looked decidedly unhappy and I had to run over and get a glimpse of the biggest fish I had ever seen taken from the shore.
- Chunking in the vicinity of fish means blue sharks, tope and spurdogs.
- None of us knew how to handle a shark or tope of this size and I feared for a serious injury if we landed it.
- These roll around until they hit the reef where the baits are and add smell to the water to help the tope home in on your baits.
- By casting uptide anglers started to double the numbers of cod, tope and rays caught in many other areas
- On the other hand, I have been invited to fly-fish for pollock and tope off the Mull of Galloway in a couple of weeks.
- The tope shark is considered harmless to humans because of its small size and its preference for small prey items.
- The sea angling season to date has seen an improvement on last year with big catches of tope and codling reported.
- Ireland also holds a wealth of beach and rock fishing with the tope more evenly spread than on the UK mainland.
- The tope is closely related to the blue shark and shares many of the features of this fish.
- Scottish waters see incoming tope from June, with peak numbers later in August, though September can be very good.
OriginLate 17th century: perhaps of Cornish origin. verbtōptoʊp [no object]literary, archaic Drink alcohol to excess, especially on a regular basis. 〈古或诗/文〉（尤指经常）过多地喝酒；酗酒 he was toping the while from a flagon of sack Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
OriginMid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of obsolete top ‘overbalance’; perhaps from Dutch toppen ‘slant or tilt a ship's yard’. OriginFrom Punjabi thūp, thop ‘barrow, mound’, apparently related to Sanskrit stūpa. nountoʊptōp (in South Asia) a grove or plantation of trees, especially mango trees. （印度次大陆的）小树林（尤指芒果林） Example sentencesExamples - In 1894, Rice reported that there were about 2000 topes with about 100,000 trees in the entire Bangalore District.
Synonyms plantation, farm, holding
OriginFrom Telugu tōpu or Tamil tōppu. nountoʊptōp A small grayish slender-bodied shark, occurring chiefly in inshore waters. 翅鲨 Genus Galeorhinus, family Carcharhinidae: the eastern Atlantic G. galeus, and the commercially important G. australis of Australia Example sentencesExamples - The tope is closely related to the blue shark and shares many of the features of this fish.
- On the other hand, I have been invited to fly-fish for pollock and tope off the Mull of Galloway in a couple of weeks.
- Scottish waters see incoming tope from June, with peak numbers later in August, though September can be very good.
- Chunking in the vicinity of fish means blue sharks, tope and spurdogs.
- The sea angling season to date has seen an improvement on last year with big catches of tope and codling reported.
- Ireland also holds a wealth of beach and rock fishing with the tope more evenly spread than on the UK mainland.
- These roll around until they hit the reef where the baits are and add smell to the water to help the tope home in on your baits.
- By casting uptide anglers started to double the numbers of cod, tope and rays caught in many other areas
- The tope shark is considered harmless to humans because of its small size and its preference for small prey items.
- What looked like a cross between a tope and a bull huss looked decidedly unhappy and I had to run over and get a glimpse of the biggest fish I had ever seen taken from the shore.
- None of us knew how to handle a shark or tope of this size and I feared for a serious injury if we landed it.
OriginLate 17th century: perhaps of Cornish origin. |