tip

1. 1

   The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.

   • the tip of one's nose
2. 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. 3

   The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.

4. 4

   A small piece of meat.in-plural

   • chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips
5. 5

   A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

6. 6

   A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

7. 7

   Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).

8. 8

   The glans penis.slang

   • my tip sticky rn
   • What's your tip color?

1. 1

   To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.transitive

   • 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 [...].
   • truncheon tipped with iron head

1. 1

   (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.ergative

2. 2

   (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.ergative

   • 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. 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. 4

   To drink.datedslangtransitive

5. 5

   To dump (refuse).transitive

6. 6

   To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.UStransitive

   • I tip my 40 to your memory.
7. 7

   To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.transitive

   • Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.

1. 1

   The knocking over of a skittle.obsolete

2. 2

   An act of tipping up or tilting.

3. 3

   An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.CommonwealthIrelandUK

   • 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389, As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
   • 2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip.
4. 4

   Rubbish thrown from a quarry.CommonwealthIrelandUK

5. 5

   A recycling centre.CommonwealthIrelandUK

6. 6

   A very untidy place.colloquial

7. 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. 8

   A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.

1. 1

   To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.archaic

   • A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

1. 1

   A light blow or tap.archaic

1. 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. 2

   To give, pass.

   • "Done say I to that, Reuben, tip me your fin, my spark, and it shall be a bet."

1. 1

   A small monetary gift.; 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. 2

   A small monetary gift.; A gratuity given to someone who voluntarily provides assistance.dated

   • 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. 3

   A small monetary gift.; A small monetary gift given to a child from an older relative or family friend.dated

   • “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

syn. gratuity

1. 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. 2

   A piece of advice.

   • tips and tricks
3. 3

   A piece of information transmitted to law enforcement about a crime or other activity of interest.

4. 4

   A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.Australia

   • Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way.
   • Another bye round, another dose of Thursday night footy and that means you have to get your tips in early.
5. 5

   A prediction about the outcome of something.Australia

   • 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.
   • My tip is he can be top 50 after the Australian summer of tennis.

syn. hint

1. 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 Fund
   • In rare instances, the provision logically could apply to the private right of action given to contemporaneous traders to recover for insider trading (e.g., a case where an insider tipped an associate about some forthcoming corporate event,
2. 2

   To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.Australia

   • The rest of Saturday’s games have tantalising opportunities for upsets – but I’m going to tip conservatively.
   • I tipped all the home teams except for the Sharks and Storm.
3. 3

   To predict something having a particular outcome.Australia

   • 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.
   • Liz Truss is widely tipped to defeat rival Rishi Sunak to become the new British prime minister.