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
tip·pler
ˈtip(ə)lə(r)
plural -s
: one that tipples: such as
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: one that operates or works in a tipple
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: one of an English breed of pigeons similar to the tumblers but long-flying and commonly chocolate brown and white
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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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Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2026
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.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
23 June 2026
At busy times there can be a wait for drinks at the Pink Bar, but staff will remember your favourite tipple after a day or two.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Verb
To tipple your way through the local offerings, pull up a seat at Kanazawa Shu-Shu, a welcoming tapas-style bar with about 100 kinds of sake (and a helpful English menu).
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Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2026
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
Noun
Power brings a warmer and more wayward sensibility to such material than, say, the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose deadpan grids of coal tipples and water towers drained industrial structures of affect.
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Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
23 June 2026
At busy times there can be a wait for drinks at the Pink Bar, but staff will remember your favourite tipple after a day or two.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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“Tipple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipple. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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