[tip.ple] vb tip.pled ; tip.pling [back-formation fr. obs. tippler barkeeper] vi (1560): to drink liquor esp. by habit or to excess ~ vt: to drink (liquor) esp. continuously in small amounts -- tip.pler n
[2]tipple n (1581): drink 1,
2. [3]tipple n [E dial. tipple to tip over, freq. of E [1]tip] (1880) 1: a place where or an apparatus by which cars (as for coal) are loaded or emptied
2: a coal-screening plant