tipple
1to drink intoxicating liquor, especially habitually or to some excess.
to drink (intoxicating liquor), especially repeatedly, in small quantities.
intoxicating liquor.
Origin of tipple
1Other words from tipple
- un·tip·pled, adjective
Words Nearby tipple
Other definitions for tipple (2 of 2)
a device that tilts or overturns a freight car to dump its contents.
a place where loaded cars are emptied by tipping.
Mining. a structure where coal is cleaned and loaded in railroad cars or trucks.
Origin of tipple
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How to use tipple in a sentence
As a young man, he began with the “dirty, nasty job” of cleaning the tipple — sweeping the coal dust from the warehouse where the coal was stored.
Long considered the most British of tipples, gin has now gone truly global, with iterations springing up from Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.
Gin has gone global, with appealing new styles and flavors that stretch its very definition | M. Carrie Allan | September 27, 2021 | Washington PostYou can sip Skagit Valley or enjoy a tipple that started out in a faraway corn field high in the uplands of southern Mexico.
All I meant to say was, that champagne is very pretty tipple; and so thought the dinner party, who were proportionally enlivened.
Newton Forster | Captain Frederick MarryatSpoken of people who are so much accustomed to tipple, that they never seem any the worse of it.
The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander Hislop
Brother Jucundus went along the range of barrels trying one tipple after another.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-GouldHe knew the good sap-days, and was on hand promptly for his tipple; cold and cloudy days he did not appear.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsIt is the only tipple I know of that leaves no headache the next morning to punish you for the glories of the past night.
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) | Charles Lever
British Dictionary definitions for tipple (1 of 2)
/ (ˈtɪpəl) /
to make a habit of taking (alcoholic drink), esp in small quantities
alcoholic drink
Origin of tipple
1Derived forms of tipple
- tippler, noun
British Dictionary definitions for tipple (2 of 2)
/ (ˈtɪpəl) /
a device for overturning ore trucks, mine cars, etc, so that they discharge their load
a place at which such trucks are tipped and unloaded
Northern English dialect to fall or cause to fall
Origin of tipple
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