tippler
Example Sentences
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His portraits of Viennese cafe “types” — the clumsy waiter, the morose writer, the street tippler helping himself to drinks from an outdoor table — are grotesque but funny.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2011
Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler.
From Time Magazine Archive
At pay-for-your-own drink parties in the London Hilton, the typical tippler has cut his intake from six to four.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wit is a creeping dotard, and Happiness he is in poor health an' can barely drag himself to me table, an' Hope is a tippler, an' Right Hand is getting the palsy.
From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving
Till seraphs swing their snowy caps And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun!
From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
