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Toper vs Roper - What's the difference?

toper | roper |

As nouns the difference between toper and roper

is that toper is someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard while roper is agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat.

As a proper noun Roper is

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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.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    roper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of rope; one who uses a rope, especially one who throws a lariat.
  • (dated) A maker of ropes.
    • (Piers Plowman)
  • One who ropes goods; a packer.
  • (archaic, slang) One fit to be hanged.
    • (Douce)

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)