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Definition: Tipple |
TippleNoun1. A serving of drink (usually alcoholic). Verb1. Drink moderately but regularly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tipple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | The place where tipping is done. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. Originally the place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of their coal, and still used in that sense, but more generally applied to the surface structures of a mine, including the preparation plant and loading tracks b. The dump; a cradle dump. c. Aust. The tracks, trestles, screens, etc., at the entrance to acolliery where coal is screened and loaded. CF:dump. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | TIPPLE. Liquor. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | A central facility for the loading or unloading of coal for transportation by rail or truck. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TippleSynonyms: draft (n), draught (n), potation (n), bib (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: tippled (mining). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Food | Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tipple |
| English words defined with "tipple": Bibbe ♦ Tippled, Tippling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tipple": boat puller, BOOM-CONVEYOR OPERATOR, breaker boss ♦ circle haul, COAL TRIMMER, CONTROLLER, COAL OR ORE, conveyor man, cradle dum ♦ FREE AND EASY JOHNS, Friar Rush ♦ loader-head operator ♦ ore grader ♦ slack hauler, stacker attendant, SUPERVISOR, PREPARATION PLANT ♦ TIPPLE OPERATOR, tipple supervisor, TIPPLE TENDER, tope ♦ washery boss. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Empire Coal & Coke Company, tipple and loading booms, Landgraff, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View of the tipple. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gopher hole showing tipple and screen, Williamson County, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mine tipple, Kempton, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Children playing around old coal tipple. Scotts Run, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Capels, West Virginia, with coal mine tipple in foreground. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coal miner's children playing around abandoned tipple. Scotts Run, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Top of a coal tipple overlooking farm country near Ellen Mills, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mine tipple in West Virginia. Typical mine tipple. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kelly Creek, West Virginia. Coal mine tipple. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tipple" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Tipple" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.24% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tipple" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tipple | Last name | 170 | 45,134 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tipple | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tipple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pije (beverage, cup, drink, guzzle, hooker, liquor, orgeat, pick me up, pickup, quencher, rinse), pi (boose, booze, bouse, consume, drink, imbibe, liquor, lush, take a drink, take to drink, tope). (various references) | |
Arabic | أرشف الخمر, دمن الخمر (use). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спиртно питие (liquor, lush, potation, stimulant), всякакъв вид питие, попийвам. (various references) | |
Czech | popíjet (carouse, imbibe, sup), pití (drink, drinking, potation), pít (booze, drink), alkoholický nápoj. (various references) | |
Dutch | kipstoel (car tipple, tilter, tipper, tippler), kipper (car tipple, dump truck, dumper, dumping truck, kipper, off highway truck, self propelled truckloader, tilter, tipper, tipping lorry, tipping wagon, tippler). (various references) | |
Farsi | میگساری کردن (Carouse), مست کردن (Befuddle, Booze, Fuzz, Inebriate, Intoxicate, Lush, Sot), مشروب (Beverage, Drink, Liquor, Strunt, Sup), همیشه نوشیدن , نوشابه (Beverage, Drink, Liquor, Refreshment), داءم الخمربودن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ryypiskellä (booze, drink). (various references) | |
French | picoler, installation de recette et chargement en wagons, culbuteur (tippler), culbuter (tip over), boire petites gorgées. (various references) | |
German | zechen (booze, carouse, drink, drink to excess, quaff, to carouse). (various references) | |
Greek | κρασοπίνω, πίνω εν μέτρω και συχνά, τα κοπανάω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"שתכר (become drunk, take to drink, tank up, tope), לסבוא (bib, drink, quaff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szeszes ital (alcoholic drink, boose, booze, bouse, drink, hard liquor, intoxicant, likker, liquor, lush, rum, spirit, tiddly). (various references) | |
Italian | drink preferito. (various references) | |
Manx | soo (absorption, blot, blot as paper, exhaust, exhaustion, extract, extraction; goodness of food; berry, extraction; goodness; berry, imbibe, jam, preserve, sap, sip; blotting, soak, soak up, soaking, suck, sucking, suction, tippling), iu (drink, imbibe, quaff). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ippletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | entregar-se bebida, beberricar, bebericar, embriagar-se, beber lentamente, beber (absorb, be filled, be fuddled, be inspired, bear, carouse, consume, down, drink, drink away, drink to excess, endure, fuddle, imbibe, lush, soak up, take, tolerate). (various references) | |
Romanian | trage (absorb, booze, come, drag, drag in, drag out, draw, evolve, extract, fetch, fire, guzzle, haul, heave, hitch, lie, lug, pluck, pop, pull, pull up, rub, screw, shoot, strike off, suffer, toll, tug, worry), vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, infuse, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spew, spill, spout, vomit), chefui (booze, carouse, feast, go on the spree, junket, revel, spree), îmbãta (flush, inebriate, intoxicate, muddle, swill). (various references) | |
Russian | спиртной напиток (boose, booze, drink, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, liquor, lotion), выпивать (drink), пьянствовать (boose, booze, go on the binge, guzzle, have a binge, tope, toping). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | opijati se, mnogo piti, alkoholno piće (boose, booze, hooch, libation, liquor, spirit, swizzle). (various references) | |
Spanish | empinar el codo (crook the elbow), bebida alcohólica (alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, boose, booze, hooch, intoxicant, liqueur, stimulant). (various references) | |
Swedish | supa (bib, booze, drink, drink to excess, fuddle, guzzle, lush, soak, tope), pimpla (dap, guzzle, jig, tope), dricka (beer, drink, drinking, fuddle, gratuity, have, imbibe, lemonade, quaff, soft drink, take). (various references) | |
Thai | "ื่มเหล้า (hammered, liquor). (various references) | |
Turkish | sert içki (aqua vitae, liquor, short drink, strong drink), sık sık içmek, içkiye düşkün olmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | напій (beverage, drink, liquor, skink), перекидатися (bandy, battledore, fall over, keel over, overset, overturn, somersault, trip, tumble, upset), пиячити (be on the booze, boose, bouse, bum, carouse, fuddle, guzzle, knock back, make whoopee, tope), питво (skink), пити (bib, drink, sot, water). (various references) | |
Welsh | yslotian (dabble), slotian (dabble, paddle), potio (pot), llymeitian (bib, sip), diota (bib, booze). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tipple": tippled, tippler, tipplers, tipples. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tipple": stipple. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tipple": stippled, stippler, stipplers, stipples. (additional references) | |
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"Tipple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chipple, dipple, Ippel, kipple, timple, tiple, tippen, tippex, Tipula, trippily, tripple, tuple, tupple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tipple" (pronounced ti"pul) |
| 4 | -i" p u l | cripple, fipple, nipple, ripple, triple. |
| 3 | -p u l | ample, Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, crumple, decouple, dimple, disciple, episcopal, example, gospel, grapple, hopple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, temple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, multiple, municipal, newspeople, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pimple, pineapple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, rumple, salespeople, sample, scalpel, scruple, Semple, simple, topple, townspeople, trample, uncouple. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-p-t" | |
-1 letter: pipet. | |
-2 letters: lept, lipe, lite, pelt, pile, pipe, plie, tile. | |
-3 letters: lei, let, lie, lip, lit, pep, pet, pie, pip, pit, tel, tie, til, tip. | |
-4 letters: el, et, it, li, pe, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-p-t" | |
+1 letter: ripplet, stipple, tippled, tippler, tipples. | |
+2 letters: flippest, lippiest, loppiest, oppilate, pieplant, presplit, pulpiest, ripplets, stippled, stippler, stipples, tailpipe, tippable, tipplers. | |
+3 letters: epileptic, flappiest, floppiest, oppilated, oppilates, palpitate, papillate, papillote, periplast, pieplants, pimpliest, pitchpole, popliteal, preputial, proleptic, rippliest, slippiest, sloppiest, stipplers, tailpipes. | |
+4 letters: apoplectic, appositely, epileptics, epileptoid, epitaphial, leptospire, oppositely, palimpsest, palpitated, palpitates, papillotes, participle, pentaploid, periplasts, perplexity, phlogopite, pitchpoled, pitchpoles, pleiotropy, prenuptial, psilophyte, puppetlike, septupling, strippable, suppletion, suppletive, supplicate. | |
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