Meaning & use
toping
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Drinking alcohol, especially habitually or to excess.
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The old sailors spent the evening toping at the tavern.
His toping habits worried his family.
A note on using this word
An archaic or literary word; the verb 'tope' for excessive drinking dates to the 17th century and is now rarely used outside historical fiction.
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