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"Habitual drinker"2 answers
toper5 letterstippler7 letters
Filled answer is this word (TOPER).
Definitions
a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
Word origin
From tope + -er.
Used in a sentence
“A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]”
“The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.”
“[…] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, […]”
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01“Habitual drinker”5 letters
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