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tipper¹

  • /ˈtɪpɚ/ US
  • /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪpə(ɹ)

noun tippers

  1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity. The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
  2. slang A small moustache.
  3. UK A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.

    Similar: dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

  4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
  5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
  6. A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
  7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter). The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.

Opposite: nontipper

tipper²

  • /ˈtɪpɚ/ US
  • /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪpə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

noun

  1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well. a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper

Tipper³

Where it comes from

Probably an occupational surname for a maker of arrowheads, from an agent derivative of Middle English tippe (“head, tip”).

proper noun Tippers

  1. A surname from Middle English.

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noun

Opposite: nontipper

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@misc{tipper_2026,
  title = {tipper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tipper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}