Tip

noun tips

1. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. the tip of one's nose
2. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
3. The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
4. in plural A small piece of meat. chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
5. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
6. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
7. Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
8. slang The glans penis. my tip sticky rn

verb tips · tipping · tipped

1. transitive To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].

verb tips · tipping · tipped

1. ergative (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
2. ergative (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]
3. To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it. The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
4. dated, slang, transitive To drink.
5. transitive To dump (refuse).
6. US, transitive To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. I tip my 40 to your memory.
7. transitive To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips. Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.

noun tips

1. obsolete The knocking over of a skittle.
2. An act of tipping up or tilting.
3. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
4. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
5. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, broadly A recycling centre.
6. colloquial A very untidy place.
7. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.
8. A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.

verb tips · tipping · tipped

1. archaic To hit quickly and lightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

noun tips

1. archaic A light blow or tap.

verb tips · tipping · tipped

1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. You should always tip your waiter in the United States and most third world countries.
2. To give, pass. "Done say I to that, Reuben, tip me your fin, my spark, and it shall be a bet."

noun tips

1. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other service worker as a token of appreciation, often calculated as a percentage of the bill. Workers in the American service industry usually depend on tips to even make minimum wage.
2. dated A gratuity given to someone who voluntarily provides assistance. A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
3. dated A small monetary gift given to a child from an older relative or family friend. “I hope,” said Uncle Andrew presently in a very high and mighty voice, just as if he were a perfect Uncle who had just given one a handsome tip and some good advice

Similar: gratuity

noun tips

1. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. hot stock tips
2. A piece of advice. tips and tricks
3. Australia A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition. Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way.
4. Australia A prediction about the outcome of something. My guess, Senator Bernardi, is that Mr Rudd will take over. He will immediately say: 'I made a mistake on the carbon tax. We're not going to introduce it and we will go to an election.' There is my tip.
5. A piece of information transmitted to law enforcement about a crime or other activity of interest.

Similar: hint

verb tips · tipping · tipped

1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. Dirks was an investment analyst who learned from a former employee of Equity Funding that the company had been fraudulently manufacturing insurance policies. Dirks tipped several institutions which then liquidated $16 million in Equity Funding stock before the fraud was exposed and the bottom fell o
2. Australia To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition. The rest of Saturday’s games have tantalising opportunities for upsets – but I’m going to tip conservatively.
3. Australia To predict something having a particular outcome. I'm tipping that, although complex accounting treatments tend to separate capital items and recurrent programs and impede overall visibility, there are significant overspends across the infrastructure portfolio.

noun tips

1. A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
2. A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

proper noun

1. A male nickname.

proper noun

1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).Tertiary Ideographic Plane
2. abbreviation Abbreviation of Tipperary.Tipperary
3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Third Intermediate Period.Third Intermediate Period […] is based on a far too general assessment of the social position of TIP and Late Period priesthood. Further, it overlooks the actual historical context in which the trend of archaism emerged.
4. Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Technological Institute of the Philippines.Technological Institute of the Philippines
5. UK, abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of Thurrock Independents Party.Thurrock Independents Party

noun TIPs

1. abbreviation, derogatory, initialism, offensive Initialism of trans-identified person.trans-identified person