tippler

tippler

1. slang A person given to drink; a drunkard or alcoholic. My granny was an incorrigible tippler. She used to carry a flask of brandy around with her that she'd use to spike her tea or coffee. I think our new manager is a bit of a tippler. He always smells of stale booze when he comes into work.
2. dated slang An outdoor toilet in which fecal matter that collected beneath it was cleared away by a rush of household waste water coming from a tank beneath the kitchen sink that "tippled" over when it became overfull. Often used before another noun as a modifier. When I was growing up, we had just one toilet in the courtyard that was shared by four houses on the block. It was a tippler, too, so you might have the living daylights scared out of you by the roar of water being flushed through the pipes.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tippler

1. n. a tavern keeper. John is the best tippler this place has ever seen. Tip me another, John.
2. n. a drunkard. Uncle Ben was a tippler—a harmless one. He started drinking at fifteen and has been a tippler ever since.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • spunge
  • tipple
  • sozzler
  • souse
  • heister
  • borachio
  • swill-belly
  • whale
  • micky
  • lush
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This retrospective, curated by Lisa Corrin, will include Trauma, 2000 (an extension of Confess all..., 1994), in which masked and wigged respondents to Wearing's ads recount painful memories from their youth; Drunk, 1999, a three-screen surveillance of a group of tipplers; and a new video work commissioned for the Occasion.
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Those who frequently get drunk are sometimes referred to as "tipplers." The first recorded were two fellows who came before the authorities in England in 1396 for violating the liquor laws.
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