As nouns the difference between imbiber and toper
is that imbiber is one who imbibes, who drinks, especially alcoholic beverages while toper is someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
imbiber
English
Noun
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en noun)
one who imbibes, who drinks, especially alcoholic beverages.
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toper
English
Noun
(
en noun)
Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
- 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.
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