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

Somers was lazy, improvident and a tippler, and after a short sojourn in America Mrs. Somers found herself a young and blooming widow, with one child, a girl, to provide for.

From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.

Yet, in the briefest instant that can be measured, an ignoble tippler had dared to cut the life-thread from which depended no small portion of the destinies of millions of people.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)