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
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
Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Licentious and surly, wheedling and pilfering, selfish and a tippler, she clashed with the simple nature of Birotteau without offering him any compensating perspective.
From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac
The tippler knew the reason why only too well, and he also knew that it was useless as well as dangerous to disobey the coxswain.
From The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
