An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TIPPLED
Verb
tippled
simple past tense and past participle of tipple
Source: Wiktionary
Tip"pled, a.
Definition: Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk. [R.] Dryden.
TIPPLE
Tip"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tippling.] Etym: [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See Tip a point, and cf. Tipsy.]
Definition: To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.
Tip"ple, v. t.
1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess. Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice. Dryden.
2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.
Tip"ple, n.
Definition: Liquor taken in tippling; drink. Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. S. B. Griffin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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