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Toper vs Wino - What's the difference?

toper | wino |

As nouns the difference between toper and wino

is that toper is someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard while wino is a wine-drinking alcoholic.

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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    wino

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A wine-drinking alcoholic.
    • Related terms
    * meth * meths drinker

    Etymology 2

    W'' boson + ''-ino .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

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