tipple

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
  2. noun Alcoholic liquor.
  3. noun An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
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  • "Just because your tipple is vinegar doesn't mean the rest of us can't enjoy a pint or two of summat nicer." —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • He bought leather-bound books by the linear foot, and installed them in his den, though he did not attempt to read them; he drank from crystal goblets, though his tipple was corn whiskey drawn from his own still. —  FSF,March2008
  • I'm curious what your tipple is for different foods? —  Anthony McCune, The Lives and Times...
  • When it comes to taking time out to enjoy magazines perhaps it's not surprising that the nation's favourite tipple is a cup of tea, almost half of people (45 per cent) who opt for some refreshment whilst reading their magazine opted for a brew, whilst over a third (35 per cent) said that a glass of wine was the perfect accompaniment. —  PublicTechnology.net
  • It was everyone into the pool when partiers packed the Coral Room to mingle, tipple, and just have a good time. —  mediabistro.com: Media News
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tipple:   tippling
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler, bartender.
  2. From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of tip2.

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  1. Dim. of tip, n.
  2. Freq. of tip. Cf. topple.
  3. from tipple, v.
  4. from Norwegian tipla, drink little and often, =G. zipfeln, eat or drink in small quantities; apparently connected with tip, and so with tipple. Cf. tipsy.
 

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