tipple
1 of 3verb
tip·ple ˈti-pəl 
tippled; tippling ˈti-p(ə-)liŋ
intransitive verb
: to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess
transitive verb
: to drink (liquor) especially continuously in small amounts
tippler
ˈti-p(ə-)lər
noun tipple
2 of 3noun (1)
1
: drink sense 1
2
: drink sense 2
tipple
3 of 3noun (2)
1
: a place where or an apparatus by which cars (as for coal) are loaded or emptied
2
: a coal-screening plant
Synonyms
Verb
- bib
- booze
- drink
- guzzle
- liquor (up)
- lush (up) [slang]
- soak
Noun (1)
- alcohol
- aqua vitae
- ardent spirits
- booze
- bottle
- drink
- firewater
- grog
- hooch [slang]
- inebriant
- intoxicant
- John Barleycorn
- juice [slang]
- liquor
- lush [slang]
- moonshine
- potable
- rum
- sauce [slang]
- spirits
- stimulant
- strong drink
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Example Sentences
Verb I do tipple now and then.
Word History
Etymology
Verb
back-formation from obsolete tippler alehouse keeper, from Middle English tipler
Noun (2)
English dialect tipple to tip over, frequentative of English tip entry 1
First Known Use
Verb
1560, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
Noun (1)
1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1880, in the meaning defined at sense 1
tippler
noun
as in alcoholic
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk a golfing foursome of modest tipplers heading for the nineteenth hole after a round Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- alcoholic
- drunk
- drinker
- drunkard
- inebriate
- boozehound
- dipsomaniac
- toper
- boozer
- alkie
- sot
- souse
- alky
- tosspot
- rummy
- soak
- juicer
- juicehead
- soaker
- wino
- lush
- swiller
- swigger
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- teetotaler
- teetotaller
- abstainer
- nondrinker
- teetotalist