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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown but possibly from a Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla), or from tip -le.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tipple (countable and uncountable, plural tipples)
- (countable) An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
- (countable, rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
- Alternative form: tippler
- (countable and uncountable, slang) Any alcoholic drink.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
- 1974, Raoul Walsh, “Hail to the Chief”, in Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →LCCN, page 254:
- The comedian would have divers bottles of tipple hidden under bushes and in crannies around his house, and would select guests to embark on his idea of a treasure hunt.
- 2001, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, “New Girl”, in The Office, season 1, episode 5 (television production), spoken by David Brent (Ricky Gervais):
- What's your tipple?
- 2015 April 22, Sam Jordison, quoting Jan Morris, “Jan Morris talks about Venice”, in The Guardian[1]:
- I know nothing about vino nero, and have always vaguely thought it a tipple from Sicily. I have never associated it with Venice.
- 2022 July 18, Amelia Tait, “‘Alcohol is a hand grenade’: how reality TV went from boozy Big Brother to nosecco Love Island”, in The Guardian[2]:
- But not a drop to drink … Love Islanders are limited to two tipples a day.
Translations
[edit]area near the entrance of mines used to load and unload coal
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apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them
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slang: any alcoholic drink
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Verb
[edit]tipple (third-person singular simple present tipples, present participle tippling, simple past and past participle tippled)
- To sell alcoholic liquor by retail. [from earlier 16th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To drink too much alcohol. [from mid-16th c.]
- (intransitive) To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
- Synonym: bibble
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
- (transitive) To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
- (intransitive) To fall over; to topple.
- 1928, The World's Carriers and Carrying Trades' Review, page 476:
- The men had only moved the trailer about a yard when suddenly it tippled over on its side, and bales of cotton fell on Howarth.
- 2017, Christopher Lee, Margaret the Abomination:
- After taking a few moments to recover he turned and meandered towards the closest Supergun, ramming it from the side and watching as it tippled over.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]To sell alcoholic liquor by retail
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To drink too much alcohol
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to drink alcohol regularly, but not to excess
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Further reading
[edit]- “tipple n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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