tippler

Plural: tipplers

Noun

• One who drinks alcoholic beverages, especially habitually.
• someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
• A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.
• A habitual drinker; a bibber.
• A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
• An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
• One who works at a tipple.
• Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.

Examples

• The resident TIPPLER often blamed his low Scrabble scores on the ale, not his strategy.

Synonyms

social drinker, bibber