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tipsy

/tip-see/US // ˈtɪp si //UK // (ˈtɪpsɪ) //

微醺,微醺的,微醺的人,微醉

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    tip·si·er, tip·si·est.

    • : slightly intoxicated or drunk.
    • : characterized by or due to intoxication: a tipsy lurch.
    • : tipping, unsteady, or tilted, as if from intoxication.

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Examples

  • A crowded train full of tipsy, shouting baseball fans is another great opportunity to evaluate the long-term comfort of the soft, synthetic leather ear cups.

  • They’re also resistant to dust, drops, and your tipsy cousins knocking them off the deck at a barbecue.

  • Speaking to The Post, Moreno recalled a “fabulous” night full of applause, tears and a warm backstage embrace from a tipsy Joan Crawford.

  • It emitted the sound over and over, like a tipsy reveler at a New Year’s Eve party.

  • Not in the hands of O’Donnell, a kind of Oscar Wilde gone tipsy, who drops some Irish whimsy into the harsh reality of Victorian England.

  • A rush of water spills from above, but not from the bottle of an absent-minded commuter or tipsy traveler.

  • The Schiaparelli Spring/Summer 2014 collection can be seen as something of a tipsy take on couture.

  • As soon as those words leave my mouth, I turn around and am staring at a tipsy-looking Fassbender.

  • Harry, clearly a little tipsy, was photographed dancing in the street.

  • You might only get tipsy, but how much fun would it be if any of this actually happened?

  • His thoughts ran on things past; he had spoken unkindly of Sally, behind her back; he had been tipsy—Ah!

  • Says one of the characters, referring to the importunities of a tipsy vagrant, “Give him half-a-crown!”

  • He led to a little low public-house, whence tipsy songs were booming, and tapped at a side door three times.

  • Everybody wears blue ribbon here, but I don't, because I don't want to get tipsy anyhow.

  • Not very, the witness replied, not so tipsy but that she could walk and talk, but she had had quite enough.