1 a very small amount of a drink that you take into your mouth: --
He took a slow, thoughtful sip of his coffee.
2 to drink a liquid slowly by taking in small amounts at a time: --
3 abbreviation for strategic inflection point --
4 abbreviation for stock incentive plan or share incentive plan --
They regard it as a foothold, as part of a process—as the first sour sip from a bitter cup.
Those of us who have suffered from ill-health know that a sip of warm tea at times assists to revive one and keep one going.
Your remarks are so brief today that we don't even have time for a sip of coffee!
He must be the last person to have taken a last sip at the old price.
And none of them had had a sip of alcohol.
In addition, spellings of words like sir were more likely to involve a misordering of the vowel and the postvocalic consonant letters than spellings of words like sip.
In such circles, religion is a common topic of everyday conversations, whether sitting and sipping tea or visiting for dinner.
One gets an image as one reads of bearded, besandalled academics sipping their coffee while dreaming of authentic, masculine, working-class tavern rowdiness.
