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tipples

tipples is the plural of tipple.

tipples is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tipple.

Meaning of tipple

Noun

tipple (countable and uncountable, plural tipples)

  1. (countable) An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
  2. (countable) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
    • Alternative form: tippler
  3. (slang) Any alcoholic drink.
    • The comedian would have divers bottles of tipple hidden under bushes and in crannies around his house, and would select guests to embark on his idea of a treasure hunt.1974, Raoul Walsh, “Hail to the Chief”, in Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →LCCN, page 254

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Proper noun capitalized: Tipples

Tipples

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Origin of tipples

From a Middle English form of the given name Theobald.

Questions about tipples

What does tipples mean?
Tipples means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is tipples the plural of?
Tipples is the plural of tipple.
What part of speech is tipples?
Tipples is a proper noun.

Words near tipples in the dictionary

  1. tipple
  2. tippled
  3. tippler
  4. tippler's bane
  5. tipplers
  6. tipples
  7. tippling
  8. tipplings
  9. tipply
  10. tippy
  11. tippy tap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tipples (page history and authors); Tipples (page history and authors); tipple (page history and authors). 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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