Definitions for tipples

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tipples tip·ple

Spelling: [tip-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtɪp əl/

Tipples is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in tipples (eilppst).

Definitions for tipples

noun

1. intoxicating liquor.
2. a device that tilts or overturns a freight car to dump its contents.
3. a place where loaded cars are emptied by tipping.
4. Mining. a structure where coal is cleaned and loaded in railroad cars or trucks.

verb (used with object)

1. to drink (intoxicating liquor), especially repeatedly, in small quantities.

verb (used without object)

1. to drink intoxicating liquor, especially habitually or to some excess.

Origin of tipples

1490-1500; back formation from Middle English tipeler tapster, equivalent to tipel- tap² (cognate with Dutch tepel teat) + -er -er

Examples for tipples

He cannot enjoy his own tipple unless he can deprive me of mine.

But Charley, my hearty, we are getting on slowly with the tipple; are they all empty?

You can rest sure of this one thing—if I get onto that tipple, you're going to get your weights!

Oh,” says he, “I have made them so drunk with my Alchoran they need no tipple.

And the beauty of our tipple now is,” said Bob, “that it never does a fellow the least harm.

Sandeman's '48—the tipple you and I have tasted together for many a year.

The tipple was a fairly public place, and he judged he was as safe there as anywhere.

This place was the "tipple," where the coal that came out of the mine was weighed and recorded.

The more he drank, the better relish he had for their tipple.

The moment he has tossed off the tipple, he begins tinkling.