tip·ple 1 (t p  l)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.] tip pler 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.] |
tipple1
vb
to make a habit of taking (alcoholic drink), esp in small quantities
n
alcoholic drink
[back formation from obsolete tippler tapster, of unknown origin]
tippler n
tipple2
n
1. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a device for overturning ore trucks, mine cars, etc., so that they discharge their load
2. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a place at which such trucks are tipped and unloaded
vb
Northern English dialect to fall or cause to fall
[from tipple to overturn, from tip2]
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tipple - a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft" Translations
tipple [ˈtɪpl] (fam)
1. n → drink m inv preferito to have a tipple → bere un bicchierino
2. vi → sbevazzare
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