"toper" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness",
          "text": "A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]",
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          "text": "“Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.",
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        "Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard."
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        "(now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard."
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          "word": "alcoholic"
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          "word": "drunkard"
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          "word": "tosspot"
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          "word": "drunkard"
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  "word": "toper"
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