as in drunk
being under the influence of alcohol
our uncle had too much to drink at the wedding and got a little tipsy
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Recent Examples of tipsy
Read on to learn why experts say drinking on a plane can spark symptoms beyond feeling tipsy, and make the comedown that much worse.
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Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Dec. 2025
This almost operates like a cocktail party, so people get a little bit tipsy before the actual ceremony.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
The crowd was young, tipsy, and overwhelmingly Australian, especially at fratty-sounding spots like Freddy’s and Wild Bill’s.
—Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2025
Even Stacey and Florian noticed that Darcey was getting tipsy.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
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Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Dec. 2025
This almost operates like a cocktail party, so people get a little bit tipsy before the actual ceremony.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
The crowd was young, tipsy, and overwhelmingly Australian, especially at fratty-sounding spots like Freddy’s and Wild Bill’s.
—Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2025
Even Stacey and Florian noticed that Darcey was getting tipsy.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipsy
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When Robby races into the room, our drunk country clubber is being restrained, and his nose is bleeding.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Meet Keoma Duarte, age 41, accused of vehicular homicide of a local cop while driving drunk.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
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Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Take Jackie, who comes into the ER after a drunken accident.—
Jonathan Hunt-Glassman,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Tipsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipsy. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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