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What is a tosspot?

What is a tosspot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (colloquial, now rare) A drunkard, one who drinks alcohol frequently.
  2. (Britain, slang) A fool, prat; an idiot.
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A flashy tosspot TV weatherman living beyond his means, his lotto hostess girlfriend and a dodgy mate try to rig a lottery win, but have trouble collecting.
As a tabloid tosspot of some note, I had difficulty understanding the concept of Sky as Rupert slowly explained it.
Or is it the falling-downdrunk Dylan, the prototype, promiscuous, tosspot poet, the tormented soul of those last grave-chasing days across the ocean?
He's still a tosspot, but I'm forced to admit he's not a totally-irrelevant-to-police-recruitment tosspot.
If I had not been sitting next to someone I know and like, who also knew that tosspot has a more specific UK English meaning, I would probably not have screamed my way through my colleague's talk so rudely.
The performers sometimes elaborated their part of the song with suitable actions, and in particular Tosspot was usually supposed to be drunk and acted accordingly.

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