Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A breed of domesticated pigeons, derived from and very closely resembling the tumblers. They do not, however, ‘tumble’ when on the wing and fly but poorly.
- noun One who or that which tipples or turns over; a tumbler.
- noun Same as
tipper , 1. - noun One who tipples; especially, a person who drinks strong liquor habitually without positive drunkenness; a moderate toper.
- noun One who sells tipple; the keeper of a tavern or public house; a publican.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who keeps a tippling-house.
- noun One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
seller of alcoholicliquors . - noun A
habitual drinker ; abibber . - noun A breed of
domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions. - noun UK An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A mine car, a
lorry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is further down this road, probably about a half mile or so up this road actually at the entrance to the mining facility, to where they call the tippler, which is the processing plant of the mine.
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Mr. Marquis’s The Old Soak, a post-prohibition portrait of a genial old tippler, is perhaps the most vital bit of American humor since Mr. Dooley — some say since Mark Twain.
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Among the main buildings still standing is the "tippler," where mining cars traveling on a narrow-gauge railroad track would be tipped over, dumping their loads of coal.
billingsgazette.com 2008
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Her aunt had been a tippler, and his habit of keeping whiskey had been the one thing that had given her pause when he asked her to marry him.
Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline' Narrative Magazine 2010
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There's no indication that President Obama is a similar tippler, but I think it just means that the public's impatient, the public is worried, the public is lurching a little bit from side to side and saying, we'll take a chance on you.
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There's no indication that President Obama is a similar tippler, but I think it just means that the public's impatient, the public is worried, the public is lurching a little bit from side to side and saying, we'll take a chance on you.
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As an interesting writer is by definition a pond-skipper, a book-dipper, perhaps a tippler and ever an eccentric, it's no surprise to find procrastination only a few letters away from (literary) procreation.
Reading, Young and Old Heather McDougal 2009
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Meanwhile, Lynley, who's been away on compassionate leave following the murder of his wife (in the preceding novel), is summoned back to duty to guide his possible replacement, an attractive divorcee and closet tippler named Isabelle Ardery.
Book review of Elizabeth George's 'This Body of Death' Maureen Corrigan 2010
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As always, Annette Bening is glorious -- there's a nervous intelligence that shines through (a quality you wouldn't often single out in American actresses), and in "Kids" Bening gets to strut her comedy skills playing a control freak and tippler.
Erica Abeel: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT IS THE REST OF AMERICA? 2010
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His father, he said, had long since matriculated well beyond his amateur standing as a tavern tippler, and had gone on to become a renowned professional whiskey drinker.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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