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Tope: To drink (liquor) habitually and excessively or engage in such drinking
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* '''tope:''' to drink liquor habitually and excessively, or to engage in such drinking
  
(Hindi top, probably from Prakrit thpo, from Sanskrit stpa, tuft of hair, crown of the head, summit, stupa)
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* '''dope'''
  
Type typography
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* '''topos:''' (''Greek'') place
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* '''Mrs Top:''' Joyce's original version
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050069&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''tope:''' (''Anglo-Indian'') (1)(''Hindi'' '''top''') a cannon; (2) (''Tamil'' '''toppu''') a grove or orchard; (3) (''Sanskrit'' '''stupa''', ''Pali'' or ''Prakrit'' '''thupo''') tuft of hair, crown of the head, summit, stupa, a Buddhist monument in the form of a solid dome
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* '''Type''' → typography
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* '''Mistress Dope:''' [[ALP]]

Revision as of 09:27, 4 July 2007

  • tope: to drink liquor habitually and excessively, or to engage in such drinking
  • dope
  • topos: (Greek) place
  • tope: (Anglo-Indian) (1)(Hindi top) a cannon; (2) (Tamil toppu) a grove or orchard; (3) (Sanskrit stupa, Pali or Prakrit thupo) tuft of hair, crown of the head, summit, stupa, a Buddhist monument in the form of a solid dome
  • Type → typography
  • Mistress Dope: ALP