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sip
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[ verb ] drink in sips
Examples "She was sipping her tea" Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)He and Irvin_Moll were sipping coffee at the breakfast bar . Sipping their coffee , discussing the weather , the day 's shopping , Fritzie 's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ) , they avoided the radio , the morning TV news_show , even the front page of the Santa_Luisa_Register , resting on the kitchen bar . Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet_rolls . |
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[ noun ] (biology) a small drink
Synonyms Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen , taking a sip from_time_to_time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)Alex 's instruction was rapid , for the doctor had_to go_off to the Rue_Ecole_de_Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all . Related terms |
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