Tipple Definition
tĭpəl
tippled, tipples, tippling
verb
tippled, tipples, tippling
To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
American Heritage
To drink (alcoholic liquor) habitually.
Webster's New World
To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
Wiktionary
noun
tipples
Alcoholic liquor.
Webster's New World
An apparatus for emptying coal, ore, etc. from a mine car by tipping.
Webster's New World
The place where this is done.
Webster's New World
A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.
American Heritage
Origin of Tipple
From dialectal tipple to overturn frequentative of tip
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler bartender
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Origin unknown but possibly from Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla).
From Wiktionary
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