slang. Obs. [Perh. from TIP v.2 sense 4 or 5; but possibly shortened from TIPPLE sb.] Intoxicating liquor; a draught of liquor. Also in comb. tip-merry a., merry with liquor, slightly intoxicated.
1612. Burford Reg., in Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Collect., I. 85. [One man is described as unfit to keep an alehouse] because he will be tipmerrie himself.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Bub, Rum-bub, c. very good Tip [in 1725 New Cant. Dict., ‘Tipple’]. Ibid., s.v., A Tub of good Tip, (for Tipple) a Cask of strong Drink.
1717. Ramsay, Elegy on Lucky Wood, vi. (Sc.) She ne’er … kept dow’d tip within her waws.
1738. Swift, Pol. Conversat., 144. Miss (with a Glass in her Hand). Hold your Tongue, Mr. Neverout, don’t speak in my Tip.
