sip
IPA: sˈɪp
noun
- A small mouthful of drink
- An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually sub-intoxicating amounts.
- (computing) Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters.
- (computing, macOS) Initialism of System Integrity Protection.
verb
- (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
- (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
- To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- (figurative) To consume slowly.
- (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep [(intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.]
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Examples of "sip" in Sentences
- I sipped a cup of tea.
- How many sips did you have
- He often sips his drinks at the bar.
- I sipped a glass of wine with my friends.
- The rest of the time I relax and sip coffee.
- Maybe we could chortle while sipping our cava.
- I even sip out the soaring wounds of the dying animals.
- The author ends the story by sipping a cup of bitter coffee.
- Grappa is sipped from the shot glass, not downed in one gulp.
- Typically, a few brave female souls will dance near the music stages, while hundreds of male database gurus sip free drinks and ogle.
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