Meaning

5 senses

  1. A habitual drinker; a bibber.

  2. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.

  3. (UK)An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.

  4. One who works at a tipple.

  5. (obsolete)A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.

More definitions
  • someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities

Examples

2 sentences

  1. She wasn't an alcoholic, but she was definitely a tippler.

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  2. You're a tippler, but I know you're not an alcoholic.

    deDu bist ein Gewohnheitstrinker, aber ich weiß, du bist kein Alkoholiker.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.

From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.

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Forms

plural: tipplers
Singulartippler
Pluraltipplers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
drinker:bibber
Close in meaning
  • someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities:social drinker

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtipple

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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