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Bar directors know such prices can elicit scoffs of disbelief, but they justify the big-ticket tipples by comparing them to special-occasion items at restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Long considered the most British of tipples, gin has now gone truly global, with iterations springing up from Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2021

Local brothers David, Peter and Jack Baker, who in their previous career distributed Crystal Rock water, produce award-winning tipples, including a smooth bourbon whiskey, vodka and gin.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018

“You see coal tipples all over this region but you don’t necessarily see coal breakers,” said Barbara L. Jones, chief curator at the Westmoreland.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2017

As the boat continued up the river it passed many such tipples.

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)