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  • noun Alternative spelling of hip flask.

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Examples

  • Any of these is preferable to shuffling around a drowsy cluster of third-hand camping supplies, wearing tattered fingerless gloves and pulling on a hip-flask of thermometer drainings.

    Ned Goldreyer: A Tale of Tent Cities 2009

  • Sipping morphine from a hip-flask and calling his tumour 'Rupert'Murdoch.

    The Truth Will Out. Fathorse 2008

  • Why shouldn't I be able to bring my hip-flask onto Air Force One with me?

    Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives 2006

  • The flacon of Nuit de Noël is made of black crystal glass, and looks like a cross between an ink bottle and a hip-flask, adorned with a Charleston-style gold headband.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • The flacon of Nuit de Noël is made of black crystal glass, and looks like a cross between an ink bottle and a hip-flask, adorned with a Charleston-style gold headband.

    Nuit de Noël Ayala Sender 2007

  • He may have been equipped with a hip-flask and a packet of sweet toast.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • Today he is remembered mostly for his stories of Archy and Mehitabel, a lowercase cockroach and a toujours gai alley cat, but in his lifetime Marquis was known equally well for the Old Soak -- a hip-flask philosopher who struggled to endure the dry days of Prohibition.

    The Life and Times of Don Marquis 1995

  • They saw him pause and take a long swig from a king-sized hip-flask.

    Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

  • My impression is that meanwhile he exploded a bit, in those hip-flask days.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • My impression is that meanwhile he exploded a bit, in those hip-flask days.

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

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