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tipple

/tip-uhl/US // ˈtɪp əl //UK // (ˈtɪpəl) //

小费,小酒,饮料,酒水

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tip·pled, tip·pling.

    • : to drink intoxicating liquor, especially habitually or to some excess.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tip·pled, tip·pling.

    • : to drink, especially repeatedly, in small quantities.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : intoxicating liquor.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Long considered the most British of tipples, gin has now gone truly global, with iterations springing up from Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.

  • You can sip Skagit Valley or enjoy a tipple that started out in a faraway corn field high in the uplands of southern Mexico.

  • All I meant to say was, that champagne is very pretty tipple; and so thought the dinner party, who were proportionally enlivened.

  • Spoken of people who are so much accustomed to tipple, that they never seem any the worse of it.

  • Brother Jucundus went along the range of barrels trying one tipple after another.

  • He knew the good sap-days, and was on hand promptly for his tipple; cold and cloudy days he did not appear.

  • It is the only tipple I know of that leaves no headache the next morning to punish you for the glories of the past night.