tipsy
IPA: tˈɪpsi
adjective
- (informal, slang) Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.
- (metonymically) Unsteady, askew.
- (cooking, informal) Containing alcohol.
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Examples of "tipsy" in Sentences
- Tipsy is good but drunk is risky.
- Why, Sydney, I am not the slightest bit tipsy.
- This movement was no easy task in a frail, tipsy shell.
- In this way, tipsy sailors were more likely to get injured.
- Marian, now tipsy from the champagne, happily returns home.
- The two monks quickly become tipsy, and soon begin to doze.
- Tired, and tipsy from the alcohol Jack gave her, Mouse goes to bed.
- The entire tribal area of Jaharkhand becomes tipsy during this time.
- A tipsy cake is a sweet dessert cake, a variety of the English trifle.
- Having never consumed alcohol in her life, Miss Furnival begins to get tipsy.
- If I'm staying in the Hotel from the Shining I want to get drunk not "tipsy". kale
- So I get back from Thane's about 5-ish, still tipsy from the tequila, and figure I'll take a nap, just an hour or two.
- We were initially seduced by "tipsy" in the title, but once we tried thirschfeld's recipe, we fell in love with much more than the Jack-Daniels-infused syrup.
- Not that he was in the least "tipsy" -- that low-word applicable only to low people, and not men of property, who have a right to enjoy all the good things of this life.
- Vice-President was drunk -- he stammered out a few broken sentences in tipsy glorification of himself as a "plebeian," to the disgust and shame of all who assisted at the ceremony.
- Chris Libby recalled how his younger brother, Dustin, looked the day he shipped off for boot camp — a kid with scruffy, long hair, still a bit tipsy from the previous night's festivities.
- Neighbour Joe Peter Martin recalls a tipsy evening of naked wrestling in front of the fire, Jim is laid up with a bad back and Dave and Denise fear their gift of a fridge magnet will be upstaged by Anthony.
- The beer here is stronger than in the U.S. (about 4. 8\% vs. 3. 4\% in a Bud Light), so it is sort of tricky when you think you haven't had that many drinks but are suddenly pretty tipsy, which is exactly what happened to me last night.