tippex
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Tippex¹
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Tipp-Ex is originally a trademark, owned since 1997 by Société Bic. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion. The first component is from the German verb tippen (“to type”), and the second from Latin ex.
noun Tipp-Ex · tippex
- A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general. If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person...
- A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.
verb Tippexes · Tippexing · Tippexed · Tipp-Ex · tippex
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To delete using correction fluid.
Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.”
Similar: white out
tippex²
verb tippexes · tippexing · tippexed
- Alternative letter-case form of Tippex If the employer knows you are sick, he can arrange things at work so that the job can go on. First tippex out the wife's name, then write in my name.
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Tippex Since the 1986 Social Security Act reached the statute-book, MPs have been called upon to apply 'legislative tippex' (as Frank Dobson put it) through two Bills which corrected errors relating to...
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Talk about this word "tippex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tippex. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tippex. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tippex "tippex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tippex.Cite this
@misc{tippex_2026,
title = {tippex},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tippex},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
