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tipsy

[tip-see] / ˈtɪp si /


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SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It’s as if he’s saying to us and all the tipsy ladies in the audience: Check this out — LOL, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

"She was furious. She saw this upper-class woman wearing a fur coat getting tipsy with her husband. So she threw me out."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023

"This is not parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin's boxed wine loving mother saying I'm gonna get tipsy & throw my bingo cards at you! NOT A PARODY."

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2022

They were all little squares, Marly noticed then, with tipsy shutters.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

The servants are growing tipsier downstairs, but the more afraid of the chief functionary every time he appears, frozen into sobriety by his glance.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

Written in "implacable" 14-hour stretches during a four-month "retirement in the mountains of New Hampshire," Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces is the year's tipsiest first novel.

From Time Magazine Archive

It suddenly occurred to him, in one of those lucid moments which the tipsiest man will occasionally have, that the cemetery of Kirkcaldy formed a short cut to his house.

From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell

The tipsiest of his fellows slunk away from his side.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine

Beneath a most capricious sky lives the least capricious people in the world, and yet this orderly and methodical nation possesses the tipsiest, most disordered architecture that eye can see.

From Holland, v. 1 (of 2) by Helen Zimmern




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