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Tipple

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Noun

1. draft, draught, potation, tipple

a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg

Example Sentences:
'they served beer on draft'

Verb

2. bib, tipple

drink moderately but regularly

Example Sentences:
'We tippled the cognac'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tipple

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verb
1. 
to make a habit of taking (alcoholic drink), esp in small quantities
noun
2. 
alcoholic drink
noun
1. 
a device for overturning ore trucks, mine cars, etc, so that they discharge their load
2. 
a place at which such trucks are tipped and unloaded
verb
3. Northern England dialect
to fall or cause to fall

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Tipple

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verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈtippled or ˈtippling
1. 
to drink (alcoholic liquor) habitually
noun
2. 
alcoholic liquor
noun
1. 
an apparatus for emptying coal, ore, etc. from a mine car by tipping
2. 
the place where this is done

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tipple

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tr. & intr.v. tip·pled, tip·pling, tip·ples
To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
n.
Alcoholic liquor.
n.
1.
a. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
b. The place where this is done.
2. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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