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Tipple   /tˈɪpəl/   Listen
noun
Tipple  n.  Liquor taken in tippling; drink. "Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico."


Tipple  n.  An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping; also, the place where such tipping is done.


verb
Tipple  v. t.  
1.
To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess. "Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice."
2.
To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.


Tipple  v. i.  (past & past part. tippled; pres. part. tippling)  To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. "Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets."





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"Tipple" Quotes from Famous Books



... one's fellow-creatures! present company excepted,' says Mr. Despard, filling his glass, 'and the man that grew this "tipple." They're useful to me now and then, and one has to put up with this crowd; but I never could take much interest ...
— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne
... you." I obeyed her. I had hardly swallowed it before a delicious warmth stole over me, and every nerve tingled with pleasure. I sank back into the cushions revived—exalted! Then I fell asleep. Oh, the shame of it! The shame of it! A thousand curses upon a tipple that caused such woe! May eternal perdition be ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... country parsons, and to share the country squire's liking for tobacco. Gray wrote to Warton from Cambridge in April 1749 saying: "Time will settle my conscience, time will reconcile me to this languid companion (ennui); we shall smoke, we shall tipple, we shall doze together"—a striking picture of University life in the sleepy days of the eighteenth century. Gray's testimony by no means stands alone. In November 1730 Roger North wrote to his son Montague, then an undergraduate at Cambridge, saying: "I would be loath ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... demoralizing companion her husband ever associated with, and she had, besides, every reason to believe that, were it not for his evil influence over the vain and wretched man, he might have overcome his fatal propensity to tipple. She had often told Art this; but little Toal's tongue was too sweet, when aided by his dupe's vanity. Many a time had she observed a devilish leer of satanic triumph in the misshapen little scoundrel's eye, when bringing home her husband in a state of beastly intoxication, and ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... "With the blood of a foe No tipple is worthy to clink." Poor fellow! he hadn't, though sixty or so, Yet tasted ...
— Fifty Bab Ballads • William S. Gilbert


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