A small mouthful of drink
An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually sub-intoxicating amounts.
Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory.
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
To drink a small quantity.
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Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old E...
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[She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.