TIPPLE

I. verb (~d; tippling) Etymology: back-formation from obsolete ~r alehouse keeper, from Middle English tipler Date: 1560 intransitive verb to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess, transitive verb to drink (liquor) especially continuously in small amounts, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1581 drink 1, drink 2, III. noun Etymology: English dialect ~ to tip over, frequentative of English 1tip Date: 1880 a place where or an apparatus by which cars (as for coal) are loaded or emptied, a coal-screening plant