tippler
- n someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
- TV can be like a tippler who stays on the wagon for weeks only to allow himself an occasional major binge.
- He is a potent tippler of sparkling burgundy and relishes his Mercedes.
- The ex-tippler doesn't break his sobriety, but he is filmed doing something else that other photographers were forbidden to capture: drinking a nonalcoholic beer with the gusto of .