vt. (习惯性地)少量饮(酒)

vi. 饮酒

n. 酒, 含酒饮料

Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. t.
1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

Himself, for saving charges,
A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice.
--Dryden.

2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.


Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tippled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tippling}.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf.
Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a
draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small
parts. See {Tip} a point, and cf. {Tipsy}.]
To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge
in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors;
especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but
without absolute drunkeness.

Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and
those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple
in alehouses than to pace the streets. --Macaulay.


Tipple \Tip"ple\, n.
Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. --S. B.
Griffin.


Tipple \Tip"ple\, n. [Cf. 3d {Tip}.]
An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping;
also, the place where such tipping is done.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]