What does "tipple" mean?
An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
Tipple
name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
- Grammar: tipple is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholic beverage, aqua vitae.
- Useful contrasts: abstain, abstainer, moderate drinker.
- Usage evidence: The hundreds of thousands of football fans visiting Brazil for the World Cup are consuming large quantities of caipirinhas, the national tipple based on muddled lime and the sugarcane-based spirit cachaça.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal. countable
- 2 a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg wordnet
- 3 An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done. countable
"Alternative form: tippler"
- 4 Any alcoholic drink. countable, slang, uncountable
"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."
Verb
- 1 To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
- 2 drink moderately but regularly wordnet
- 3 To drink too much alcohol. ambitransitive
- 4 To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess. intransitive
"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."
- 5 To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it. transitive
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- 6 To fall over; to topple. intransitive
"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."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"The hundreds of thousands of football fans visiting Brazil for the World Cup are consuming large quantities of caipirinhas, the national tipple based on muddled lime and the sugarcane-based spirit cachaça."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "tipple"?
Common synonyms include: alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholic beverage, aqua vitae, bib, bib.
How do you use "tipple" in a sentence?
The hundreds of thousands of football fans visiting Brazil for the World Cup are consuming large quantities of caipirinhas, the national tipple based on muddled lime and the sugarcane-based spirit cachaça.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Unknown but possibly from a Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla), or from tip + -le.
Etymology 2
From the medieval personal name Tebald or Tibalt. Compare Theobald.