tippled; tippling
ˈti-p(ə-)liŋ 
: to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess
: to drink (liquor) especially continuously in small amounts
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: a place where or an apparatus by which cars (as for coal) are loaded or emptied
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: a coal-screening plant
Examples of tipple in a Sentence
Verb
I do tipple now and then.
Noun (1)
a single-malt Scotch with a touch of water is his preferred tipple
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
The legendary Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain, for example, which dated back to the 1880s and for years was a place where the political class tippled, is no more.
—Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
The old Queen Mother, King Charles’ grandmother was partial to her same cocktail (Dubonnet and gin), every day at precisely 6:15 p.m. One day, the required tipple had not arrived.
—Louis J. Esterhazy, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
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Verb
People have been tippling there for more than four hundred years, and the wine list has the heft—and the persuasive majesty—of a Gutenberg Bible.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
The legendary Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain, for example, which dated back to the 1880s and for years was a place where the political class tippled, is no more.
—Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
Noun
Antinori, who has worked in top-tier hotel bars across Europe, has eschewed the complexity of modern mixology in favor of straightforward, unpretentious tipples that spotlight quality local ingredients.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
The old Queen Mother, King Charles’ grandmother was partial to her same cocktail (Dubonnet and gin), every day at precisely 6:15 p.m. One day, the required tipple had not arrived.
—Louis J. Esterhazy, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tipple
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“Tipple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipple. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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