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Plural for an alcoholic drink
“He didn't even come back to gulp down the full glass of his favorite tipple, which then stands forlornly on the table where he left it.”
Plural for a single act of drinking, or single serving of, an alcoholic drink
“Your mother and I will be having cocktails before cocktails, and if you promise to be good, you can have a tipple of champagne.”
To drink alcohol, especially habitually or to the point of drunkenness
“And as an editor there, he got to kibitz and tipple with the likes of Dorothy Parker, Stephen Vincent Benet, and P.G. Woodhouse.”
To drink, especially alcohol
“Miriam's brothers and some of their sisters' husbands would go off from family get-togethers and tipple a few, but Britt wasn't aware of this.”
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