sip

Meanings

1. A small mouthful of drink.
2. An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually subintoxicating amounts.

1. To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
2. To drink a small quantity.
3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
4. Alternative form of seep.
5. To consume slowly.

1. Acronym of single-issue publication.
2. Acronym of structural insulated panel.

1. Initialism of Session Initiation Protocol
2. Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters.
3. Initialism of System Integrity Protection.
4. Initialism of Strengthening Institutions Program.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).