(v. i.) To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.
(v. t.) To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.
(v. t.) To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.
(n.) Liquor taken in tippling; drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
(2) They’re cracking open the baijiu ,” said John Delury, a China expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to China’s throat-scorching national tipple.
(3) Since Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from middle ear effusions of neonates with natally acquired chlamydial infection (Tipple et al., 1979), there have been several studies to detect chlamydia in older children with chronic secretory otitis media, mainly by tissue culture.
(4) The taoiseach promised that he would open it up and enjoy a tipple on the day Ireland exited the IMF-EU bailout .
(5) The British gin industry had a record-breaking year in 2015 after 49 new distilleries opened their doors and and consumers spent nearly £1bn on their favourite tipple.
(6) A study earlier this year on the wine ingredient resveratrol now suggests the tipple may not hold the secret of why countries such as France have such a low incidence of heart disease.
(7) Mocotó is also a cachaçaria , selling more than 500 cachaças – a tipple often associated with poor people and drunks – from all over the country.
(8) Good news, obviously, but isn't Baileys a bit of a, well, girls' tipple?
(9) Describing the whisky duty freeze as Osborne's "referendum tipple," Swinney said: "The £63m added to the Scottish budget today is small beer compared to the significant cuts Scotland has faced since 2010.
(10) The trend has been attributed to factors including pub prices comparing unfavourably with the cost of alcohol in supermarkets and changing cultural habits, with more people entertaining and sharing a tipple at home.
(11) Photograph: PR The forward galley’s catering facilities have wine glasses for an in-flight tipple while the bathroom includes a shower and a vacuum lavatory.
(12) On the day his death was announced, Hardee's friends and family converged on the Wibbly Wobbly to pour a measure of his favourite tipple, rum and Coke, into the river where he felt so at home.
(13) Order a flight of pisco (from £3.45) or a round of pisco sours (from £3.25 each) and decide for yourself which country’s tipple tickles your fancy.
(14) My tipple was mostly white wine, and I probably drank, on average, a bottle a night – more at the weekends.
(15) Basque wine or cider are the classic tipples, but Atari also mixes killer gin and tonics.
(16) But after word spread about her sake venture, Sasaki quickly found herself running out of stock as old neighbours and new customers indulged their love of her cloudy, slightly fizzy tipple.
(17) Californian online retailer Wines that Rock, responsible for the Rolling Stones' Forty Licks Merlot and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon, has collaborated with a Bordeaux vineyard to develop a tipple giving a nod to the clarets favoured by the English aristocracy in the Edwardian era.
(18) "No regrets," she asserts haughtily, knocking back a glass of rakija , the local tipple.
(19) But you might want to try another tipple after hearing the case of a 47-year-old woman, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), who developed brittle bones and lost all of her teeth after drinking too much tea .
(20) It was the working man’s tipple and in the early 20th century there were more than 1,000 pulquerías in Mexico City.
Tippler
Definition:
(n.) One who keeps a tippling-house.
(n.) One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efforts are struggling to persuade tipplers that they are not, as Samuel Johnson said , improved, merely unaware of their defects.
(2) Checking out the bargain chain’s Fulham outlet in west London, Jim McCarthy is gobsmacked by a sudden run on goldfish bowls – apparently being snapped up by students across the UK as makeshift cocktail glasses that can be shared by multiple tipplers dunking in straws.
(3) Plenty of yes voters want him out once he has delivered victory, including the Whyte and Mackay tippler and the Edinburgh lawyer who fears his authoritarian streak.
(4) Burleigh Brewing HEF, Gold Coast, Queensland The beer scene in Brisbane has really come alive in the past couple of years, driven by a handful of passion-fuelled small bars, such as Archive, The Scratch, Bitter Suite, Kerbside and Tippler’s Tap, alongside a growing number of microbreweries, including Bacchus, Green Beacon and Fortitude.