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
tipples 1 of 2
noun
as in liquors
a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk a single-malt Scotch with a touch of water is his preferred tipple Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- liquors
- drinks
- boozes
- alcohols
- bottles
- spirits
- rums
- wines
- beers
- whiskeys
- ales
- potables
- juices
- vodkas
- brandies
- moonshines
- grogs
- inebriants
- intoxicants
- sauces
- tequilas
- stimulants
- cocktails
- lushes
- hooches
- gins
- ardent spirits
- whiskies
- strong drinks
- aperitifs
- loads
- digestifs
- firewaters
- brews
- snifters
- nightcaps
- sakes
- liqueurs
- aqua vitaes
- nips
- belts
- tots
- microbrews
- chasers
- slugs
- schnapps
- John Barleycorns
- pops
- snorts
- meads
- mixed drinks
- shooters
- mums
- shots
- brewskis
- whets
- pegs
- bracers
- nappies
- malt liquors
- home brews
- brewages
- mescals
- barley-brees
- barley-broos
- sakis
- mao-tais
- Dutch courages
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonintoxicants
tipples
2 of 2verb
as in drinks
to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages I do tipple now and then Synonyms & Similar Words
- drinks
- boozes
- bibs
- guzzles
- revels
- carouses
- boozes it up
- liquors (up)
- hits the bottle
- lushes (up)
- soaks
- imbibes
- nips
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- abstains