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tipple

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tip⋅ple

1  [tip-uhl] verb, -pled, -pling, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to drink intoxicating liquor, esp. habitually or to some excess.
–verb (used with object)
2. to drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.
–noun
3. intoxicating liquor.
Origin:
1490–1500; back formation from ME tipeler tapster, equiv. to tipel- tap 2 (c. D tepel teat) + -er -er 1 ; cf. tipsy

tip⋅ple

2  [tip-uhl]
–noun
1. a device that tilts or overturns a freight car to dump its contents.
2. a place where loaded cars are emptied by tipping.
3. Mining. a structure where coal is cleaned and loaded in railroad cars or trucks.
Origin:
1875–80, Americanism; n. use of dial. tipple to tumble, freq. of tip 2 ; see -le
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tip·ple 1   (tĭp'əl)   
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   (tĭp'əl)   
n.  

    1. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.

    2. 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 tip2.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
tipple

  1. n.
    liquor; strong liquor. : A little more tipple, Tom?
  2. tv. & in.
    to drink liquor; to sip at a vessel of liquor. : He's been tippling beer since early morning.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

tipple 
1531, "sell alcoholic liquor by retail," of unknown origin, possibly from a Scand. source (e.g. Norw. dial. tipla "to drink slowly or in small quantities"). Meaning "drink (alcoholic beverage) too much" is first attested 1560. Tippler "seller of alcoholic liquors" is from 1396; in the sense of "habitual drinker" it dates from 1580.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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