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Tipped   /tɪpt/   Listen
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Tip  v. t.  (past & past part. tipped; pres. part. tipping)  To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. "With truncheon tipped with iron head." "Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press."


Tip  v. t.  
1.
To strike slightly; to tap. "A third rogue tips me by the elbow."
2.
To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. (Colloq.)
3.
To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
To tip off, to pour out, as liquor.
To tip over, to overturn.
To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. (Slang)
To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.


Tip  v. i.  To fall on, or incline to, one side.
To tip off, to fall off by tipping.





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"Tipped" Quotes from Famous Books



... qualm that John had not been tipped, but put that thought away as a matter of no pressing importance. "Had he?" I commented. "Well, you've carried it half-way, now, I'll carry it ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... of the inn here, so I'm glad I shan't be putting up here for the night. The waiter looks as if he expects to be tipped for everything. He seemed regularly cut up when I told him I was going on to Wastdale Head from the top, and shouldn't be staying here. Of course he tried to get me to come back, and said I could never get over to Wastdale ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... It is a good plan in all circles, but by far the best which can be adopted among the plain, rough farmers of the country. Accordingly, I brought old Soap-stick to an order with an air of triumph; tipped Billy a wink, and observed, "Now, Billy, 's your time to make your fortune. Bet 'em two to one that I've knocked ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... an old stone bench below the turret. Peter leant back with his black head resting against the wall, his felt hat tipped over his eyes and his pipe in his mouth. ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... high above the hills, and then for half an hour continued the most beautiful and ever-changing play of colour imaginable, as the slowly-moving fog wreaths wound about the mountain tops, now rosy in the sunlight, or again in pearly shade, while alternate gloom and gleam tipped the hills with gold or enveloped them in ...
— Burma - Peeps at Many Lands • R.Talbot Kelly


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