tipple
IPA: tˈɪpʌɫ
noun
- An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
- (rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
- (slang) Any alcoholic drink.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
verb
- To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
- (transitive, intransitive) To drink too much alcohol.
- (intransitive) To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
- (transitive) To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
- (intransitive) To fall over; to topple.
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Examples of "tipple" in Sentences
- I'm thinking of tipple.
- How often do you tipple
- The man tipples every Monday.
- Friday is the day they tipple.
- The tipple was not sold in town.
- Some people tipple only on weekends.
- The burning tipple ignited the wheat dock.
- I ordered bottles of tipple and drank with my friends.
- The new tipple was built more durably of concrete and steel.
- Built in 1936, the tipple is a coal loading and sorting machine.