sip

[ sip ]
See synonyms for sip on Thesaurus.com
verb (used with object),sipped, sip·ping.
  1. to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily.

  2. to drink from a little at a time: The bird sipped the flower.

  1. to take in; absorb:to sip knowledge at its source.

verb (used without object),sipped, sip·ping.
  1. to drink by sips.

noun
  1. an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid: One sip told me that the milk was sour.

  2. a small quantity taken by sipping: Take just a sip, not a gulp or a swallow.

Origin of sip

1
1350–1400; Middle English sippen (v.), akin to Low German sippen to sip

synonym study For sip

1. See drink.

Other words from sip

  • sip·ping·ly, adverb
  • un·sipped, adjective

Words Nearby sip

Other definitions for SIP (2 of 2)

SIP

  1. supplemental income plan.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use sip in a sentence

  • When Fate has first granted just a sip of the wine of success the slip between the cup and lip comes hardest.

  • He felt that to eat would choke him, but forced himself to take a sip of coffee and a bit of corn bread.

    The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes
  • How daintily they sip it; how happy they seem; how that lucky rogue of an Irishman prattles away!

    Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace Thackeray
  • But at this Worse looked so ferocious, that his friend took a long sip, and followed it by a fit of coughing.

    Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kielland
  • Billy shook hands, and took a sip out of the case-bottle, by way of clenching the reconciliation.

British Dictionary definitions for sip

sip

/ (sɪp) /


verbsips, sipping or sipped
  1. to drink (a liquid) by taking small mouthfuls; drink gingerly or delicately

noun
  1. a small quantity of a liquid taken into the mouth and swallowed

  2. an act of sipping

Origin of sip

1
C14: probably from Low German sippen

Derived forms of sip

  • sipper, noun

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012