tipple
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Synonyms: ripple, topple, nipple, tripple, pipple, stipple, fipple, sipple, tippee, hipple, tiple
Antonyms: ripple, topple, nipple, tripple, pipple, stipple, fipple, sipple, tippee, hipple, tiple
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Noun
- {{lb|en|countable}} An area near the entrance of [[mine]]s which is used to load and unload [[coal]].
- {{lb|en|countable|rail transport}} An [[apparatus]] for unloading [[railroad]] [[freight]] [[car]]s by [[tipping]] them; the [[place]] where this is done.
- {{lb|en|countable|and|uncountable|slang}} Any [[alcoholic]] [[drink]].
Verb
- To sell alcoholic liquor by retail. {{defdate|from earlier 16th c.}}
- {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To drink too much alcohol. {{defdate|from mid-16th c.}}
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[drink]] alcohol [[regularly]] or [[habitually]], but not to [[excess]].
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To put up (hay, etc.) in [[bundle]]s in order to dry it.
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To fall over; to [[topple]].
Proper noun
- {{surname|en|from=patronymics}}.
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