sip

From Middle English sippen, probably cognate with Middle English sipen (“to seep”), from Old English sipian (“to seep”), from a variation of Proto-Germanic *supananą (“to sip, intake”).

• enPR: sĭp, IPA^(key): /sɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

sip (plural sips)

1. A small mouthful of drink

sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)

1. (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
        ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2. (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
   • John Dryden

     [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.

3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
   • John Dryden

     They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.

4. (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
5. (figuratively) to consume slowly — (usually) in contrast to faster consumption, (sometimes) in contrast to zero consumption
   • 1995 Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress p.80 (Manchester University Press, →ISBN):

     Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.

   • 2008 July 3, "The presidential election: White men can vote" The Economist:

     It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.

   • 2014 October 20, Erik Hyrkas, "Energy Vampires are Attacking Your Home – Here’s How to Stop Them" (Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy)

     Even when turned off, these devices can idly sip electricity from your outlet costing you money.

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• See also Thesaurus:drink

• seep
• siphon

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sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)

1. sad, subdued

   Synonyms: droevig, treurig

• sip-dhúntóir

From English zip.

sip f (genitive singular sipe, nominative plural sipeanna)

1. zip, zipper, zip fastener

• "sip" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “sip” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

sip

1. (colloquial) yep, yeah, uh-huh

From English ship.

sip

1. ship