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Synonyms
tip·ple1 (tĭṕəl)

[Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler, bartender.]

tr. & intr.v.: -pled, -pling, -ples. 

To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.

noun 

Alcoholic liquor.

derivatives

tiṕpler
noun
tip·ple2 (tĭṕəl)

[From dialectal tipple, to overturn frequentative of tip2.]

noun 

    1. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
    2. The place where this is done.
  2. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.