tipple

[tip·ple]

Use the verb tipple when you want to show that someone drinks moderately but regularly. During Prohibition in the 1920s it was illegal to tipple but today you can tipple almost anywhere as long as you are 21.

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To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

Noun
a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft"

Verb
drink moderately but regularly; "We tippled the cognac"

v. i.
To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

v. t.
To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

v. t.
To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

n.
Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

Tipple

Tip"ple , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tippled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tippling .] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See Tip a point, and cf. Tipsy.] To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.

Tipple

Tip"ple, v. t. 1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice.

2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

Tipple

Tip"ple, n. Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico.

To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

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Usage Examples

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

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