tipple

In England, rules designed to curb hooliganism mean it’s not even possible to have a tipple “in view of the pitch” from 15 minutes before kickoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

England bowled full, and as their bowlers put their feet up their glasses - whatever the tipple - must have been a little more than half full.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, I guess the rich drink different from you and me — and Sacramento is helping them tipple it up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

They produce small amounts of a high quality product which is well worth making your summer tipple, not only for its delightful taste, but also for its positive social and environmental impact.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

The road out of town led past the coal mine, and Jack blew the bus horn at the tipple.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Bar directors know such prices can elicit scoffs of disbelief, but they justify the big-ticket tipples by comparing them to special-occasion items at restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2021

Local brothers David, Peter and Jack Baker, who in their previous career distributed Crystal Rock water, produce award-winning tipples, including a smooth bourbon whiskey, vodka and gin.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2018

“You see coal tipples all over this region but you don’t necessarily see coal breakers,” said Barbara L. Jones, chief curator at the Westmoreland.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017

In this district, coal-mines again appear, with their riverside tipples, and their offal defiling the banks.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Things sprang into the air and, before they tippled to the blocks of dancing ice, a boom rolled to the woman's ears.

From Time Magazine Archive

It tippled a moment, then clove desperately upward, straight for the crow's nest of the big elm.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whimsical expression tippled across the girl's face, a mixture of tenderness and mischief.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

Between “Downton” and Professor McGonagall an adoring public saw in Smith an endlessly entertaining, tippling grandmother and that endearing teacher who balanced strictness with caring.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024

But even those signs of change don’t exactly inspire the kind of lighthearted summer tippling that this season typically prompts.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020

A dry British butler helps his tippling master choose love with a waitress or marriage for money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2019

Even so, Corbyn’s critics pointed out, the institution of tippling with colleagues is never going to go away.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2016

How it intrigues one to know who were the Saints, Popes, and Bishops thus addicted to tippling!

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.