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A.Word.A.Day--tope

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tope (tope) verb tr., intr.

To drink (liquor) habitually and copiously.

[Of uncertain origin, perhaps from obsolete top (to drink) as in "top off".]

tope (tope) noun

A small shark with a long snout (Galeorhinus galeus).

[Of unknown origin.]

tope (tope) noun

A usually dome-shaped monument built by Buddhists. Also known as a stupa.

[From Hindi top, from Prakrit or Pali thupo, from Sanskrit stupa (head).

Some pictures of, tope, the fish: www.first-nature.com/fishes/galeorhinus_galeus.htm
tope, the building: www.buddhanet.net/sanchi.htm

"There are the tope strategists, who chartered the brand's repositioning and the agency folks who turned out snappy creative, not to mention a cadre of bottlers pushing Sprite in the retail trenches." Karen Benezra, Brandweek's Marketers of the Year, Adweek (Dallas, Texas), Oct 20, 1997.

This week's theme: words based on fish names.

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