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Tippler

noun
1.
Someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities.  Synonym: social drinker.






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"Tippler" Quotes from Famous Books



... them, they are attached to the planet with which they are already acquainted. They are addicted to the daily use of this empirical and unchemical mixture which we call air; and would hold on to it as a tippler does to his alcoholic drinks. There is nothing men will not do, there is nothing they have not done, to recover their health and save their lives. They have submitted to be half-drowned in water, and half-choked with gases, to be buried up to their chins in earth, to be seared with ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... The tippler interposed with moist emotion. "John, we're landless! My plantation b'longs t' my wife. I can sympathize with you, John. As old song says, 'we're landless! landless!' We are landless, John. But you have price—priceless 'dvant'ge ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead



Words linked to "Tippler" :   drinker, tipple, toper, imbiber, juicer



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