To drink (intoxicating liquor), especially repeatedly, and in small quantities.

There are plenty of people who drink just enough to be under the radar, but they do this to relieve stress and cope with emotional difficulties. They drink enough to get drunk over an elongated period of time.

A modern day McCourt might tipple.

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy

Titty nipples.

The tip of the nipple

Torpedo Nipple

to become off-balance, whithout actualy falling down.

The tit fades into the nipple, its a tit-nipple. Tipple