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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

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

I looked up the road toward the tipple and saw the people coming back.

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A whimsical expression tippled across the girl's face, a mixture of tenderness and mischief.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

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

But see, the moon is up; view, where she stands Sentinel o'er the door, drawn by the hands Of some base painter, that for gain hath made Her face the landmark to the tippling trade.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)




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