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toping

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toping is the present participle and gerund of tope.

Meaning of tope

Verb

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
    • [I]f he has been toping all Night vvith his pretty Landlady Thetis; ſo has your Lordſhip vvith ſvveet little Jenny at the Thatcht-Houſe, […][1709], Tho[mas] d’Urfey, The Modern Prophets: Or, New Wit for a Husband. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1

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What is toping the present participle and gerund of?
Toping is the present participle and gerund of tope.

Words near toping in the dictionary

  1. topinambour
  2. topinambours
  3. Topinambous
  4. Topinaqui
  5. topinch
  6. toping
  7. topiramate
  8. topiroxostat
  9. topis
  10. topisomerase
  11. topisomerases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toping (page history and authors); tope (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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