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

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 Whitman, Walt

The plume of the soldier, the gay air of the debauchee, the flippant beau, the half-insane tippler, could she not have seen her doom in being affianced to one of these poor pageants of humanity?

From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)