Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To drink in small quantities.
- intransitive verb To drink from in sips.
- intransitive verb To drink something in sips.
- noun The act of sipping.
- noun A small quantity of liquid sipped.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To drink little by little; take (a liquid) into the mouth in small quantities; imbibe a mouthful at a time.
- To take in gradually by some process analogous to drinking; receive or obtain by sucking, inhaling, absorbing, or the like.
- To drink from by sips.
- To take a sip or sips.
- noun The act of sipping, or drinking by small quantities, as a liquid.
- noun A very small draught; a taste (of a liquid).
- noun Drink; sup.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
- noun The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
- noun A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
- transitive verb To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid.
- transitive verb To draw into the mouth; to suck up.
- transitive verb Poetic To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
mouthful ofdrink - verb transitive To
drink slowly, smallmouthfuls at a time - verb Scotland, US, dated Alternative form of
seep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb drink in sips
- noun a small drink
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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*nom nom nom sip sip nom sip nom sip nom sips sip*
Why do I - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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*sip sip sip* *thinks deep thots about happiness* *sip sip sip* It iz so stranj waht exactlee can maek us happee. *sip sip* Ai wuz driving – sum fyew yeers ago *sip sip* frum Stuttgart to Salzburg. *sip* An suddenlee, ai felt lite az a feather *spI and ai NOO that ai wuz TOTALEE an without ene rezervashun *sip* compleetelee happee.
wai you mad? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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*pixs up floote ob cham pain, sip, sip* ooo dis be reet gud champ ane *spiez buuffeet and starts to graze* nom nom nom thnx u ebrebody nom nom nom. booklion says:
O hai. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ai’m nawt usuallee nervous wehn maeking the speeches, but taht wun. . .*sip sip sip*
bwavo - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The first sip is more blueberry fruit along with alight amount of malt and almost no hops.
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Rather, cubes of crystallized sugar are clenched between the teeth, before a sip is taken, allowing for the synthesis to occur right on the tongue.
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And how many people hunt while drinking more than a sip from a flask anymore?
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The first sip is more blueberry fruit along with alight amount of malt and almost no hops.
New York Beer 2009
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And how many people hunt while drinking more than a sip from a flask anymore?
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The first sip is more blueberry fruit along with alight amount of malt and almost no hops.
Kevin Burns 2009
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