tippler
Example Sentences
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His portraits of Viennese cafe “types” — the clumsy waiter, the morose writer, the street tippler helping himself to drinks from an outdoor table — are grotesque but funny.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2011
Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler.
From Time Magazine Archive
At pay-for-your-own drink parties in the London Hilton, the typical tippler has cut his intake from six to four.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Jurgen left the old tippler, and started to leave the forest also.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
But he was gone and left the tippler in the lurch with his wine-bucket.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
