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   Tope

   /tōp/

   

   verb

   • 1. drink alcohol to excess, especially on a regular basis: archaic, literary "he was toping the while from a flagon of sack"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of obsolete top ‘overbalance’; perhaps from Dutch toppen ‘slant or tilt a ship's yard’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. toper noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • T

     1

   • O

     1

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

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