tipple
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Hemingway enjoyed a tipple or three here and joined the likes of Federico Lorca and Salvador Dalí in talk of the arts and society.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
England bowled full, and as their bowlers put their feet up their glasses - whatever the tipple - must have been a little more than half full.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
While you’re away, pinpoint at least one delicacy that will transport your guests to your vacation destination, preferably accompanied by a traditional tipple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, I guess the rich drink different from you and me — and Sacramento is helping them tipple it up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
The Captain's house, a big, barn-like wood-frame structure, and the closest house in Coalwood to the tipple, became our house.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Bar directors know such prices can elicit scoffs of disbelief, but they justify the big-ticket tipples by comparing them to special-occasion items at restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The sugar and dairy bombs are hardly light, session-able tipples.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
The drink list moves from traditional tipples, such as Manhattans and sazeracs, to Asian-inspired creations, such as the peach soju mule, a riff on the Moscow mule.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2019
Local brothers David, Peter and Jack Baker, who in their previous career distributed Crystal Rock water, produce award-winning tipples, including a smooth bourbon whiskey, vodka and gin.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2018
Below Wheeling are several miles of factory towns nestled by the strand, and numerous coal tipples, with their begrimed villages.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Things sprang into the air and, before they tippled to the blocks of dancing ice, a boom rolled to the woman's ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It tippled a moment, then clove desperately upward, straight for the crow's nest of the big elm.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Chapter 1.VII.—After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Between “Downton” and Professor McGonagall an adoring public saw in Smith an endlessly entertaining, tippling grandmother and that endearing teacher who balanced strictness with caring.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
While the majority of the tippling public tends to see the category through the lens of one or two famous brands, Irish whiskey is not just one thing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2021
Arthur’s wife goes back to work when the tippling Park Avenue heir loses his money and hits Skid Row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
Even so, Corbyn’s critics pointed out, the institution of tippling with colleagues is never going to go away.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2016
The moral reformers will brandish aloft the tinkling weapon, enthusiastic in their determination to use it to the utmost and bring down tippling to a minimum.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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