Meaning & use
Tope
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To drink alcoholic liquor, especially habitually and to excess.
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The old sailors would tope late into the night at the dockside tavern.
He had toped so freely at the feast that he could barely stand by midnight.
A note on using this word
'Tope' is now largely literary or archaic; it survives mainly in older fiction and in the related noun 'toper,' meaning a habitual drinker.
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2. noun
A small, slender species of shark found in coastal waters, also called the school shark.
Anglers off the coast landed a tope weighing nearly twenty pounds.
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