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[təʊp], (Verb)
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- drink alcohol to excess, especially on a regular basis
(e.g: he was toping the while from a flagon of sack)
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mid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of obsolete top ‘overbalance’; perhaps from Dutch toppen ‘slant or tilt a ship's yard’
[təʊp], (Noun)
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from Punjabi thūp, thop ‘barrow, mound’, apparently related to Sanskrit stūpa
[təʊp], (Noun)
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- (in South Asia) a grove or plantation of trees, especially mango trees
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from Telugu tōpu or Tamil tōppu
[təʊp], (Noun)
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- a small greyish slender-bodied shark, occurring chiefly in inshore waters
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late 17th century: perhaps of Cornish origin
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