drinker vs toper

drinker

noun
  • Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis. 

  • A device from which animals can drink. 

  • A pub. 

toper

noun
  • Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard. 

How often have the words drinker and toper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )