• (British) IPA: /ˈtəʊpə/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈtoʊpɚ/

toper (plural topers)

1. (now, literary) Someone who drink#Verb|drinks alcoholic#Adjective|alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, tosspot, Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 1818, John Keats, “On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness”:

     A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]

   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗, page 16 ↗:

     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.

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and How They Sang and Discoursed Together”, in The House by the Church-yard. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], OCLC 18952474 ↗, page 304 ↗:

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