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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



... period was kept by John Orme who in his petition for a license promised as did others of that period "to keep Tavern in George Town, to keep good Rules and Orders and not suffer the loose and disorderly persons to Tipple, Game, or Commit other disorders or ...
— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker
... we know that party speeches are not merum nectar, all, And we can take the measure of magniloquence electoral; The tipple Party Spirit men will stir and whiskey-toddy-fy, But when they have to drink ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891 • Various
... till Water works, and rumours of New Rivers rid you again and run you into questions who built Thames, till you run mad for Lotteries, and stand there with your Tables to glean the golden Sentences, and cite 'em secre[t]ly to Servingmen for sound Essayes, till Taverns allow you but a Towel room to Tipple Wine in, that the Bell hath gone for twice, and Glasses that look like broken promises, tied up with wicker protestations, English Tobacco with half Pipes, nor in half a year once burnt, and Bisket that ...
— Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher • Francis Beaumont
... they had bowed salutations with formal politeness earlier in the evening, fraternized at the supper-table. I saw a young Frenchman look approvingly on as a stalwart German Captain effected an entrance into a Strasburg pie and dealt out its toothsome contents, and the Teutons, whose favorite tipple had been beer, kept up a fusillade of champagne corks as they filled the glasses of their fair partners. After the supper, the guests returned to the spacious parlors, where, to the witching strains of the Marine Band, the merry dancers chased ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore
... of Charles Duran is a warning to all boys who are inclined to indulge in Sabbath-breaking; to form bad associations; to tipple; or to visit places of improper amusement. See his dreadful end! Mark that fatal night! Remember that he had been preparing for that season of riot and debauch by previous indulgence. He came not to his wretched condition all at once. He was preparing for it in his early ...
— Charles Duran - Or, The Career of a Bad Boy • The Author of The Waldos


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