colloq. or slang. [f. TIPPLE v.1] Drink, liquor for drinking; esp. strong drink. Also attrib. (quot. 1617; or perh. there the verb-stem in combination).
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, IX. 165. Of pleasant wine their tipple in they take.
1617. in Essex Rev. (1907), XVI. 205. vj cushions, 3 tiple pottes, 8 spoones.
1655. trans. Com. Hist. Francion, I. 8. Where hast thou got tipple to make thy selfe drunke this night?
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 47. To lay in a Cargo of fresh Peck and Tipple.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Ode Dr. Brettle, 3. Come let’s be merry; stir the tipple.
1832. Marryat, N. Forster, xxxvi. Champagne is very pretty tipple.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xli. Ah! that’s not bad tipple after such a ducking as we’ve had.
1893. Forbes-Mitchell, Remin. Gt. Mutiny, 67. Something more potent than blue-ribbon tipple.
1893. Selous, Trav. S. E. Africa, 121. A cup of tea, the usual tipple of South African hunters and travellers.
