tippler

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Mike was getting to be quite a tippler, and he said, "Let's have a drink."

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  1. A breed of domesticated pigeons, derived from and very closely resembling the tumblers. They do not, however, ‘tumble’ when on the wing and fly but poorly.
  2. One who or that which tipples or turns over; a tumbler. [Provincial English] When they talk of a tumbler pigeon, you hear them say, “What a tippler he is!” Halliwell.
  3. Same as tipper, 1.
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  • Mike was getting to be quite a tippler, and he said, “Let's have a drink.” I said I didn't want any, and I didn't. —  Dave Ranney
  • "I'm sure Mr. Dundee won't think I'm a confirmed tippler, so you might as well tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.... Poor Tracey has a deadly fear that we are all going to lose the last shred of our reputations in this deplorable affair, Mr. Dundee," she added in a rather shaky version of the comfortable, rich voice he had heard earlier in the day. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Murder at Bridge, by Anne Austin
  • "Something of a tippler, you think It went way beyond tippling," I replied. —  Celtic Riddle
  • That inspired tippler, Salcombe Hardy, got hold of it somehow. —  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy L Sayers
  • Then the awkward fact that when he did come he would be recognized, by my friends, as the tippler who had fallen overboard, would be disclosed; and I blamed myself for what I had said to them. —  Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
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