Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a tipsy manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.
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- adverb In a
tipsy manner.
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Examples
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When the television networks showed him in Berlin in August 1994 grabbing the baton and tipsily conducting a police band, his rating fell the next month.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The sooner you fall off whichever wagon you tipsily clambered aboard at the strike of midnight, the sooner you can begin to ring in the real changes.
Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson 2011
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When the television networks showed him in Berlin in August 1994 grabbing the baton and tipsily conducting a police band, his rating fell the next month.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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I thought this a great game, and I, too, began to stagger tipsily.
Chapter 4 2010
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When the television networks showed him in Berlin in August 1994 grabbing the baton and tipsily conducting a police band, his rating fell the next month.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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We are not talking about making a grumpy comment about Kaká "bottling it", tipsily sniping about Manchester United or glibly observing of the then player of the year that "Richard Dunne doesn't roll off the tongue in Beijing".
From Partridge to Brent – why the jokes have stopped for Garry Cook 2011
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When the television networks showed him in Berlin in August 1994 grabbing the baton and tipsily conducting a police band, his rating fell the next month.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The hollow stiffness of the clothes looks foolish when you see Grace Kelly still alive on film, gliding seductively around the apartment in Rear Window or tipsily dancing with Frank Sinatra in High Society, or enjoying Cary Grant's terror as she drives him at reckless, exhilarated speed along a mountain road above Cannes in To Catch a Thief.
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Check each of the restaurants for happy hour specials -- you can sit outside, look at the sea, enjoy a mojito and then go tipsily buy furniture at CB2 ... and those my friends, are the makings of a good mall.
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All gloriously unsupervised, bringing out the best in Londoners in a tipsily abandoned togetherness.
Why the Notting Hill Carnival isn't what it was Lloyd Bradley 2010
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