Meaning & use
toper
A person who drinks alcohol regularly and often to excess; a habitual drinker.
See it in a sentence
The old toper spent every evening at the same corner of the tavern.
Village gossip labeled him a toper long before his drinking became a real problem.
A note on using this word
Toper is an old-fashioned, somewhat literary word; modern speech favors 'drunk', 'boozer', or clinical terms like 'alcoholic'.
Words with a similar meaning
drunkardboozer
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
teetotaler
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