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tipsy

[tip-see] / ˈtɪp si /


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This is a comic epic of bursting balloons and black eyes, tipsy aunts and tottering uncles, an errant mouse and driving snows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

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

The veteran wine taster managed to avoid feeling tipsy by only drinking small sips or sometimes not swallowing the wine at all.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024

And out of Erika Girardi’s tipsy mouth poured this gem at dinner: “Merce is in the purse.”

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Then he stopped by a tipsy mailbox gazing up a hill.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen




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