Tipsy \Tip"sy\, a. [Compar. {Tipsier}; superl. {Tipsiest}.] [Akin to tipple; cf. Prov. G. tips drunkenness, betipst drunk, tipsy. See {Tipple}.] 1. Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
2. Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. --Milton.
All four victims were vulnerable, including a 50-year-old man who used a cane to steady a limp and a 33-year-old man who was tipsy.
A flight attendant refused to serve Lee any more drinks because he was tipsy and had become belligerent, authorities said.
In the movie "The Graduate," a tipsy neighborhood man drags Dustin Hoffman aside to offer some career guidance.
The tipsy birds may also fall victim to a curious cat or hungry hawk.
A man flying to Florida to visit his mother in a nursing home landed in court for slugging the airline pilot after being told he was too tipsy for another drink, authorities said.
Her television commercial for a health tonic left her tipsy in 1952.
The lack of a timely blood test has been a prosecution problem from the beginning of the case, providing no direct evidence that the skipper was tipsy.