Meaning

5 senses
  1. To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.

    ausschenken

  2. (ambitransitive)To drink too much alcohol.

    пьянствоватьpʹjanstvovatʹ, нажиратьсяnažiratʹsja

  3. (intransitive)To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.

    picheln

    выпива́тьvypivátʹ

    drink moderately but regularly

  4. (transitive)To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.

  5. (intransitive)To fall over; to topple.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
To drink too much alcohol:
to drink alcohol regularly, but not to excess:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
To sell alcoholic liquor by retail:
to drink alcohol regularly, but not to excess:

Origin

Unknown but possibly from a Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla), or from tip + -le.

Unknown but possibly from a Scandinavian source (see Norwegian tipla), or from tip + -le.

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Forms

tipples, tippling, tippled, tippled
Base formtipple · to tipple
3rd person singulartipples
Present participletippling
Past simpletippled
Past participletippled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytipple
he, she, ittipples

Past simpleLesson

all personstippled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tippled
he, she, ithas tippled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tipple

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • drink moderately but regularly:bib

Word family

2 related words
Relatedtippler
Derivedtipply

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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