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- Dictionarytipple/ˈtɪpl/
verb
- 1. drink alcohol, especially habitually: "those who liked to tipple and gamble" Similar
- 2. rain heavily: informal British "it was tippling down with rain"
noun
- 1. an alcoholic drink: informal "she drank several glasses of sherry, her favourite tipple"
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informal old-fashioned uk / ˈtɪp. ə l / us / ˈtɪp. ə l / Add to word list. an alcoholic drink: What's your tipple? (= What alcoholic drink do you usually drink?) Synonym. drink (ALCOHOL) Compare. name your poison humorous. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Alcohol - general words. alcoholic. alcopop. Angostura. aperitif. bevvy. booze.
How to use tipple in a sentence. to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess; to drink (liquor) especially continuously in small amounts… See the full definition
Definition of 'tipple' tipple. (tɪpəl ) Word forms: tipples. countable noun. A person's tipple is the alcoholic drink that they usually drink. [mainly British, informal] My favourite tipple is a glass of port. Synonyms: alcohol, drink, booze [informal], poison [informal] More Synonyms of tipple. More Synonyms of tipple.
informal old-fashioned us / ˈtɪp. ə l / uk / ˈtɪp. ə l / Add to word list. an alcoholic drink: What's your tipple? (= What alcoholic drink do you usually drink?) Synonym. drink (ALCOHOL) Compare. name your poison humorous. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Alcohol - general words. alcoholic. alcopop. Angostura. aperitif. bevvy. booze.
Use the verb tipple when you want to show that someone drinks moderately but regularly. During Prohibition in the 1920s it was illegal to tipple but today you can tipple almost anywhere — as long as you are 21. As a noun, a tipple is an alcoholic drink.
Definition of tipple noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of 'tipple' tipple. (tɪpəl ) Word forms: tipples. countable noun [usu supp N] A person's tipple is the alcoholic drink that they usually drink. [mainly British, informal] My favorite tipple is a glass of port. Synonyms: alcohol, drink, booze [informal], poison [informal] More Synonyms of tipple. More Synonyms of tipple.
Tipple definition: To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
1. a. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them. b. The place where this is done. 2. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars. [From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of tip.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
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