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to tope

to tope

9.9
To drink a lot of alcohol
  • verb
  • /toʊp/
  • Archaic
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  • In old taverns, it was common for patrons to tope until the early hours of the morning.

Examples

  • He loved to tope with friends on special occasions, celebrating life with laughter and drinks.

  • After dinner, they decided to tope and share stories from their youth.

  • If your creativity's reach is only as far as toping large splashes of misery over your surfaces, may I suggest you enlist some outside help to guide you towards something more commercially advantageous?

    Made in Italy (2020)

Synonyms

to drink
vsto tope
∞ 2.8

To have alcohol often or at social events

emphasizes older usage and heavy drinking rather than general social consumption
to booze
vsto tope
  • Informal
5 8.4

To drink a lot of alcohol

is an older, archaic word rather than modern informal usage
to souse
vsto tope
  • Archaic
3 9.9

To drink alcohol until you become drunk

is an archaic expression focusing on heavy drinking rather than general use
to boose
vsto tope
  • UK
9.9

To drink a lot of alcohol, often as a habit

is an older, archaic term rather than a modern dialectal one

How Much

to guzzle
  • Informal
16 5.8
to tope
  • Archaic
9.9
to drink
∞ 1.0
to tipple
  • Archaic
1 8.4
to sip
127 1.0

Surface Forms

tope infinitive
toping present participle
topes third person singular
topped past
topped past participle

Etymology

Tope comes from an old word for 'drink' and is like the common word tipple, which also means to drink alcohol often. So to tope is to drink a lot, usually to excess.