I always wondered where TOPE came from...
tOM
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--tope
tope (tope) verb tr., intr.
To drink (liquor) habitually and copiously.
[Of uncertain origin, perhaps from obsolete top (to drink) as in "top
off".]
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