toper

For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell.

His drinks column for the Observer's food magazine was an engaging confection of wit, doom and fantasy, as it would be from a such a seasoned toper.

Meanwhile, Labour is trying to paint the prime minister as a crazed video-game addicted toper who "rants at the dispatch box", as the shadow leader of the house, Angela Eagle, put it on Thursday.

The habitually temperate man, when he does casually exceed, shows his condition very promptly; the habitual toper can dissemble it far longer.

Barely had Merry started to question the old toper when Hodge, Ready, and Gallup appeared, hurrying forward.