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In England, rules designed to curb hooliganism mean it’s not even possible to have a tipple “in view of the pitch” from 15 minutes before kickoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

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 miners still trudge up the old path to the tipple, and the people bustle in and out of the Big Store and gather on the church steps after Sunday services.

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

“You see coal tipples all over this region but you don’t necessarily see coal breakers,” said Barbara L. Jones, chief curator at the Westmoreland.

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

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

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

When we had thus chatted and tippled, Bacbuc asked, Who of you here would have the word of the Bottle?

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 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

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

“They want young blood, the railroad nobs tell it,” the disgruntled fireman had been heard to remark in his favorite tippling place on Railroad Street.

From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman