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Tippler

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tip·ple 1  (tpl)
tr. & intr.v. tip·pled, tip·pling, tip·ples
To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
n.
Alcoholic liquor.
[Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler, bartender.]
tippler n.
tip·ple 2  (tpl)
n.
1.
a. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
b. The place where this is done.
2. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.
[From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of tip.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tippler - someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
social drinker
imbiber, juicer, toper, drinker - a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)


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He had, in truth, drunk very little--not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings of genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
This little old man, with a livid face blazoned by the red nose of a tippler and lighted by two gleaming vulture eyes, allowed his gray hair to hang loose under a three-cornered hat, wore breeches with straps that extended beyond the buckles, cotton stockings of mottled thread knitted by his niece, whom he always called "the little Saillard," stout shoes with silver buckles, and a surtout coat of mixed colors.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
He then perceived that this man, dressed as a cavalier, had just entered the principal chamber, and was haranguing the tipplers, who all listened to him with the greatest attention.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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