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tipple

[tip-uhl] / ˈtɪp əl /
VERB
drink
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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

“The tipple of Hong Kong,” according to Hahn.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2025

Early nights, or perhaps a favourite tipple, are among the common answers, but 106-year-old Leslie Lemon's is more unusual: custard.

From BBC Jul. 1, 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 line of coal cars beside us suddenly began slamming against each other, just before being pushed to the tipple.

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

Long considered the most British of tipples, gin has now gone truly global, with iterations springing up from Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.

From Washington Post Sep. 27, 2021

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

While drawing blast furnaces, coal tipples, coke ovens and other industrial structures, the 41-year-old artist suffered chilblains, a condition that causes hands and feet to itch and turn red or blue.

From Seattle Times Dec. 25, 2017

Christmas tipples every wine, English, French, and Gascon fine And Angevine; Clinks with neighbor and with guest, Empties casks with gibe and jest— The year's for rest!

From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris

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

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

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

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

Here is a rascal who has tippled nectar to some purpose.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

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

A dry British butler helps his tippling master choose love with a waitress or marriage for money.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 11, 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 poor fellow was taken into custody, and next day brought before the Mayor, and after being severely spoken to about the sin of Sunday tippling, he was sentenced to the stocks for two hours.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews




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