toper

From tope +‎ -er.

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

toper (plural topers)

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

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

   • 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.

• alcoholic, drunkard; tosspot; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

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

From English tope + -er.

toper

1. (Jersey) to tope