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Tip

noun

1.

The extreme end of something; especially something pointed.

2.

A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire.

3.

An indication of potential opportunity. Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, wind. "A good lead for a job"

4.

A V shape. Synonyms: peak, point.

5.

The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill). Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, summit, top. "They clambered to the tip of Monadnock" , "The region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

verb

(past & past part. tipped; pres. part. tipping)

1.

Cause to tilt.

2.

Mark with a tip.

3.

Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on. Synonyms: bung, fee. "Fee the steward"

4.

Cause to topple or tumble by pushing. Synonyms: topple, tumble.

5.

To incline or bend from a vertical position. Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tilt.

6.

Walk on one's toes. Synonyms: tippytoe, tiptoe.

7.

Strike lightly. Synonym: tap.

8.

Give insider information or advise to. Synonym: tip off.

9.

Remove the tip from.

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— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... cot Dick stretched himself for he was still drowsy. Then he tip-toed over to where the food was stored, ...

— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock

... angle of the tumbling roof made the clean-cut garden beds doubly true. Nature had had compassion on the aged little building, however; the clustering, fragrant vines, in their hatred of nudity, had invested the prose of a wreck with the poetry of drapery. The tip-tilted settee beneath the odorous roof became, in time, our chosen seat; from that perch we could overlook the garden-walls, the beach, the curve of the shore, the grasses and hollyhocks in our neighbor's garden, the latter startlingly distinct against the ...

— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

... though to speak; but when she saw how unobserved she was she remained silent and upright as an Indian while the canoe slipped gently toward the shore. Presently it cushioned its nose in the velvety sand. She rose silently from her seat, and stole on moccasined tip-toes along the stones until she could have touched his hair with her fingers. But her eyes fell over his shoulder on ...

— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead

... with the promise of an extra tip, Staff jumped in and shut the door. As they swung into Fourth Avenue, he caught a glimpse of Ismay's slight figure standing on the corner, his pose expressive of indecision and uncertainty; and Staff smiled to himself, surmising that it was there that the thief had left his ...

— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance

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