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tipple

[tip-uhl] / ˈtɪp əl /
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drink
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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

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 results suggest blueberry wine maintains some of the fruit's nutrients and the team identifies ways to optimize components in this superfood tipple.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

The next weekend, Mr. Bykovski met with me and Sherman and O’Dell at the tipple machine shop to teach us the fundamentals of welding and cutting steel so that we could build our own rockets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

In this district, coal-mines again appear, with their riverside tipples, and their offal defiling the banks.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

It tippled a moment, then clove desperately upward, straight for the crow's nest of the big elm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony

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

But even those signs of change don’t exactly inspire the kind of lighthearted summer tippling that this season typically prompts.

From Washington Post Jul. 8, 2020

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

Isabel tried to think of him as the tippling major, but it seemed as if she had talked to another man.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various




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