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tipple::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bib |
| Type of | booze, drink, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| Derivation | tippler |
We tippled the cognac.
Examples of tipple
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If you want your history washed down with a quality tipple, Chipiona is for you.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The patron who asked for a screwdriver was more apt to get a tool than a tipple.
From the time.com
It shows you bottle labels and asks you how much you think the tipple will cost.
From the techcrunch.com
It deserves a toast, and in Reunion there's just one tipple for a raised glass.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It was assumed that a gentleman might reasonably stop off for a morning tipple.
From the washingtonpost.com
So I'm speculating that the presidential tipple won't be particularly high-proof.
From the buffalonews.com
Possibly my favourite tipple of the evening turned out to be one of the cheapest.
From the gazetteherald.co.uk
Whatever you're used to paying for your favourite tipple, prepare to pay more.
From the newscientist.com
Perhaps wine snobs need to think again about the way their tipple is packaged.
From the newscientist.com
- Draft: a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft"
- Drink moderately but regularly; "We tippled the cognac"
- Tiple is the Spanish word for treble or soprano, is often applied to specific instruments, generally to refer to a small chordophone of the guitar family.
- An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal; An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done; Any alcoholic drink; To sell alcoholic liquor by retail. [from earlier 16th c.]; To drink too much alcohol. ...
- A central facility used in loading coal for transportation by rail or truck.
- A structure that facilitates the loading of coal into rail cars.
- A surface processing structure for cleaning and sizing coal and automatically loading it onto rail cars or trucks for movement to market.
- Structure used to unload mine cars directly into trucks or railroad cars, for delivery to a breaker.
- Originally the place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of their coal, and still used in that sense, although now more generally applied to the surface structures of a mine, including the preparation plant and loading tracks.
