† rob-pot Obs.
[f. rob v. + pot n.1 1 c.]
A deep drinker, a toper.
| 1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 48 Ile challenge all the true rob-pots in Europe to leape vp to the chinne in a barrell of beere. 1603 Dekker Wonderfull Yeare Wks. (Grosart) I. 139 My puffing Host..blest himselfe, that a Londoner (who had wont to be the most valiant rob-pots) should now be strooke downe only with two hoopes. 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virg. Martyr ii. i, Bacchus,..grand Patron of rob-pots. |