tope

tope
    n 1: a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists [syn: {stupa},
         {tope}]
    v 1: drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The
         husband drinks and beats his wife" [syn: {drink}, {tope}]
    

Tope \Tope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toped} (t[=o]pt); p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Toping}.] [F. t[^o]per to cover a stake in playing at
   dice, to accept an offer, t[^o]pe agreed!; -- perhaps
   imitative of the sound of striking hands on concluding a
   bargain. From being used in English as a drinking term,
   probably at first in accepting a toast.]
   To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous
   liquors to excess.
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         If you tope in form, and treat.          --Dryden.
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Tope \Tope\ (t[=o]p), n. [Probably from Skr. st[=u]pa a tope, a
   stupa, through Prakrit th[=u]po.]
   A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often
   erected over a Buddhist relic.
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Tope \Tope\, n. [Tamil t[=o]ppu.]
   A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope. [India]
   --Whitworth.
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Tope \Tope\, n.
   1. (Zool.) A small shark or dogfish ({Galeorhinus galeus}
      syn. {Galeus galeus}), native of Europe, but found also on
      the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also
      {toper}, {oil shark}, {miller's dog}, and {penny dog}.
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   2. (Zool.) The wren. [Prov. Eng.]
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TOPE, v.  To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. 
In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping
nations are in the forefront of civilization and power.  When pitted
against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down
like grass before the scythe.  In India one hundred thousand beef-
eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two
hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan
race.  With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the
temperate Spaniard out of his possessions!  From the time when the
Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in
every conquered port it has been the same way:  everywhere the nations
that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too
righteously.  Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the
canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially
augmented the nation's military power.
    

163 Moby Thesaurus words for "tope":
      antenna tower, arch, barbican, barrow, beehive tomb, belfry,
      bell tower, bib, bocage, bone house, booze, bosk, boundary stone,
      box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust,
      cairn, campanile, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist,
      cist grave, colossus, column, coppice, copse, cromlech, cross,
      crypt, cup, cupola, cyclolith, dagoba, deep six, delubrum, derrick,
      dokhma, dolmen, dome, drain the cup, dram, drink, drink bottoms-up,
      drink deep, drink hard, drink off, drink up, fire tower,
      follow strong drink, footstone, gargle, grave, gravestone, grog,
      grove, guzzle, headstone, hoarstone, holt, holy place,
      house of death, hurst, imbibe, inscription, knock back, lantern,
      lap, lap up, last home, lighthouse, liquor up, long home,
      low green tent, low house, marker, martello, martello tower, mast,
      mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch,
      memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, minaret,
      monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, naos,
      narrow house, necrology, nip, obelisk, obituary, observation tower,
      orchard, ossuarium, ossuary, pagoda, passage grave, pilaster,
      pillar, pinnacle, pit, plaque, pole, prize, pylon, pyramid, quaff,
      reliquaire, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon,
      rostral column, sacrarium, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, shaw,
      shrine, sip, skyscraper, soak, spinney, spire, standpipe, steeple,
      stela, stone, stupa, sup, tablet, tank up, television mast,
      testimonial, tipple, tomb, tombstone, toss down, toss off, tour,
      tower, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, turret, vault,
      water tower, windmill tower, wood lot, woodlet