tippler
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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
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
Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Marquis's The Old Soak, a post-prohibition portrait of a genial old tippler, is perhaps the most vital bit of American humor since Mr. Dooley—some say since Mark Twain.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
He is a true pioneer, and therefore he is not an idle man, nor a loafer, nor a weak addle-headed tippler.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews
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