tipple
verb (used without object)
to drink intoxicating liquor, especially habitually or to some excess.
tippled
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past participleof tipple.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tipple.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
tippleverb (used without object)to drink intoxicating liquor, especially habitually or to some excess.
Example Sentences
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The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Things sprang into the air and, before they tippled to the blocks of dancing ice, a boom rolled to the woman's ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
It tippled a moment, then clove desperately upward, straight for the crow's nest of the big elm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had you tippled it, or spent it foolishly, you would have regretted parting with it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
