sip
/sɪp/
sip noun: a small mouthful of drink. Also the alternative form of seep.
Noun (1)
sip (plural sips)
- A small mouthful of drink.
- So order one more coffee / Have another sip of wine / We can go on talking / Until it's disco closing time1977, The Originals, “Been Decided”, in Down to Love Town
- An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually subintoxicating amounts.
- Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory.1985 April 20, Joseph Beam, “Black Men Loving Black Men: The Revolutionary Act of the Eighties”, in Gay Community News, page 5
Verb
sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)
- To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
- He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC, pages 62–63
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- To drink a small quantity.
- [She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To consume slowly.
- Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.1995, Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 80
- It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.2008 July 3, “The presidential election: White men can vote”, in The Economist
Noun (2) capitalized: SIP
SIP (plural SIPs)
- Acronym of single-issue publication.
- Acronym of structural insulated panel.
Proper noun capitalized: SIP
SIP
- Initialism of Session Initiation Protocol
- Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters.
- Initialism of System Integrity Protection.
- Initialism of Strengthening Institutions Program.
- “The Budget does not include funding for the Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP). SIP is duplicative of other Title III and V program funding for institutional support activities.2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN
Also used as
sip is also the alternative form of seep.
sip meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
sip in Hindi
- चुस्की लें
sip in Marathi
- घोट
sip in Telugu
- సిప్, సిప్ చేయండి, సిప్ చేయడానికి
sip in Malayalam
- സിപ്, സിപ്പ്
More languagesFewer languages
- sip in Kannada
- ಸಿಪ್, ಸಿಪ್ ಮಾಡಿ, ಸಿಪ್ ಮಾಡಲು
- sip in Punjabi
- ਚੂਸਣਾ cūsṇā
- sip in Gujarati
- ઘૂંટ ghū̃ṭ
- sip in Odia
- ସିପ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ସିପ୍, ସିପ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- sip in Tagalog
- higop
- sip in Arabic
- مَصَّة maṣṣa, رَشْفَة rašfa, مَزّ mazz, كَرَع karaʕ
- sip in Malay
- hirup
- sip in Thai
- ซด sót, จิบ jìp
- sip in Vietnamese
- hớp
Examples of sip in a sentence
- bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Even when turned off, these devices can idly sip electricity from your outlet costing you money.2014 October 20, Erik Hyrkas, "Energy Vampires are Attacking Your Home – Here’s How to Stop Them" (Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable...
Synonyms of sip
Forms of sip
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sips |
| plural | SIPs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sips |
| present participle | sipping |
| past participle | sipped |
| past | sipped |
Origin of sip
Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).
Words formed from sip
Phrases with sip
Words that rhyme with sip
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Questions about sip
- What does sip mean?
- Sip means a small mouthful of drink.
- What is sip in Hindi?
- Sip in Hindi is चुस्की लें. See Sip meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use sip in a sentence?
- bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
- What part of speech is sip?
- Sip can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sip?
- Sip is pronounced /sɪp/.
- What is the plural of sip?
- The plural of sip is sips.
Words near sip in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sip (page history and authors); SIP (page history and authors); sip (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sip (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sip (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sip (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sip (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sip (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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