Crossword-Solution: TOPER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Toper | n. | One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TOPER | anagram | EPORT, OPTER, PEROT, PETRO, POETR, PORTE, PRETO, PTERO, REPOT, RETOP, TEPOR, TORPE, TROPE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TOPER (5)
Bob Coggan was sent home for his ill manners, and tranquility was restored by Jacob Smallbury, who volunteered a ballad as inclusive and interminable as that with which the worthy toper old Silenus amused on a similar occasion the swains Chromis and Mnasylus, and other jolly dogs of his day.
The cobbler wrought upon a shoe; the blacksmith hammered his iron, the soldier waved his glittering blade; the lady raised a tiny breeze with her fan; the jolly toper swigged lustily at his bottle; a scholar opened his book with eager thirst for knowledge, and turned his head to and fro along the page; the milkmaid energetically drained her cow; and a miser counted gold into his strong-box,—all at the same turning of a crank.
The one toper says “fusty bandias”, to which the other is obliged to reply, “strike pantnere”, and the Friar passes many jests on the King’s want of memory, who sometimes forgets the words of action.
They tried it out on Spike Muldoon, that toper of renown; They put it over Grouch McGraw, the terror of the town.
Sometimes, by a sore stoke of fate for this Calvinistic people, the year’s anniversary fails upon a Sunday, when the public-houses are inexorably closed, when singing and even whistling is banished from our homes and highways, and the oldest toper feels called upon to go to church.
Quotes with TOPER (1)
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 77 times in crossword archives (1952–2019).