_:vb7097106 . _:vb7097104 "1851 November 13, Herman Melville, \u201CThe Spouter-Inn\u201D, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, \u2192OCLC, page 16:"@en . _:vb7097103 . . . . . _:vb7097102 "(now, literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard."@en . "1" . _:vb7097106 "\u201CWell, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,\u201D said McArdle, one of the corner topers."@en . _:vb7097104 "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."@en . _:vb7097103 "1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness:"@en . _:vb7097103 "A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, [\u2026]"@en . _:vb7097105 "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, \u201CNarrating how Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and how They Sang and Discoursed Together\u201D, in The House by the Church-yard.\u00A0[\u2026], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 304:"@en . _:vb7097105 "[\u2026] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, [\u2026]"@en . _:vb7097106 "1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, \u2192ISBN, section 3, page 156:"@en . _:vb7097102 . _:vb7097104 . _:vb7097105 .