Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
- noun Alcoholic liquor.
- noun An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
- noun The place where this is done.
- noun A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler, bartender.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of tip.]
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