tippler
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
I often held the man in the moon--where notoriously, from an absence of thirst and atmosphere, there is nothing to drink--to be a greater tippler than he.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
Like most old-fashion'd people, he drank a glass or two every day, but was no tippler, nor intemperate, let alone being a drunkard.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
