tipple

tipple
v
1.(all of alcoholic beverages) drink, tope, bouse, Inf. booze, bibble, nip, Archaic. dram; drink like a fish, drink hard, drink seriously; get drunk, Sl. get plastered or pickled, Brit. Si. get bevied; All Inf. gargle, wet or moisten one's whistle, take a drop, chug, chug-a-lug, lap, lap up, commune with the spirits, drown one's sorrows; All Sl. hit the bottle or booze or sauce, knock a few back, liquor up, souse, dip the beak, exercise or crook or bend or raise the elbow.
n
2. intoxicant, alcoholic beverage, drink, potation; liquor, alcohol, spirits, John Barleycorn, the demon rum, Inf. booze, Inf. hard stuff, Sl. hooch, Sl. red-eye, Sl. medicine; Sl. rot-gut, Sl. poison, Sl. blue ruin; moonshine, firewater, Sl. mountain dew, Sl. white lightning; mixed drink, cocktail, highball, Inf. chaser; the bottle, the cup, the cup that cheers; parting cup, stirrup cup, Scot. doch-an-dorrach, Scot. wee doch-an-dorrach.

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  • Tipple — can mean:* Coal tipple, a structure used for loading coal into railroad cars * Tipple (musical instrument) * Tipple a Welsh surname. * Slang term for alcoholic beverageAs a last name Tipple may also refer to:* Gordon Tipple * Nathan Tipple …   Wikipedia

  • Tipple — Tip ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tippling}.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Tipple — Tip ple, n. Liquor taken in tippling; drink. [1913 Webster] Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. S. B. Griffin. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tipple — tipple1 [tip′əl] vi., vt. tippled, tippling [prob. back form. < ME tipelar, tavern keeper < ?] to drink (alcoholic liquor) habitually n. alcoholic liquor tippler n. ☆ tipple2 [tip′əl ] n. [< obs. tipple, freq. of TIP …   English World dictionary

  • Tipple — Tip ple, v. t. 1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess. [1913 Webster] Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Tipple — Tip ple, n. [Cf. 3d {Tip}.] An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping; also, the place where such tipping is done. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tipple — index carouse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • tipple — (v.) 1530s, sell alcoholic liquor by retail, of unknown origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (e.g. Norw. dial. tipla to drink slowly or in small quantities ). Meaning drink (alcoholic beverage) too much is first attested 1550s. Related:… …   Etymology dictionary

  • tipple — ► VERB ▪ drink alcohol regularly. ► NOUN informal ▪ an alcoholic drink …   English terms dictionary

  • tipple — 1. n. liquor; strong liquor. □ This is mighty fine tipple. □ A little more tipple, Tom? 2. tv. & in. to drink liquor; to sip at a vessel of liquor. □ He’s been tippling beer since early morning. □ …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • tipple — I UK [ˈtɪp(ə)l] / US noun [countable] Word forms tipple : singular tipple plural tipples informal an alcoholic drink that you drink regularly II UK [ˈtɪp(ə)l] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms tipple : present tense I/you/we/they tipple… …   English dictionary

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