tip

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /tɪp/

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

From Middle English tip, typ, tippe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *typpa, *typpe, from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppijǭ (“tip”), diminutive of *tuppaz (“top”). Cognate with East Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), German dialectal (Bavarian) Zipf (“tip”), Standard German Zipfel (“tip”), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa, Albanian thep (“tip, point”).

tip (plural tips)

1. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. [From 15th c.]
   • 1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

     When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […]   But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

   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. [From 15th c.]

   a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

3. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.

   chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips

   • 1998, Alan Morris, Between Earth and Sky (Guardians of the North book 4; →ISBN:

     He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto.

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.

• (extreme end of something): extremity

• (extreme end of something): tooltip

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. [From 15th c.]
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V:

     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 [...].

   • (Can we date this quote?), Hudibras

     truncheon tipped with iron head

   • (Can we date this quote?), Thomson

     Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn. [(transitive) From early 14th c.] [(intransitive) From earlier 16th c.]
2. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. [From 17th c.]
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     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. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink. [From 18th c.]
4. (transitive) To dump (refuse). [From 19th c.]
5. (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. [From 20th c.]
   • 1993, DRS, “Gangsta Lean (This Is For My Homies)”:

     I tip my 40 to your memory.

6. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
   • 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎:

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

tip (plural tips)

1. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle. [From 17th c.]
2. An act of tipping up or tilting. [From 19th c.]
3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. [From 19th c.]
   • 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.

   • 2009, Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website

     There are two rubbish tips in Rother.

   • 2009, Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd

     Computer collectibles saved from the tip

4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
6. (colloquial) A very untidy place. [From 20th c.]
7. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap. [From later 15th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift

     A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

tip (plural tips)

1. (now rare) A light blow or tap. [From later 16th c.]

Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin.

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. [From early 18th c.]

   In some cities waiters must be tipped.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

2. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass. [From early 17th c.]

• tipper
• tipping

tip (plural tips)

1. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation. [From mid-18th c.]
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     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.

• See gratuity

Probably from to tip (“give, pass”) or to tip (“tap”), or a combination of the two.

tip (plural tips)

1. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [From mid-19th c.]
2. A piece of advice.

• German: Tipp

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. [From later 19th c.]

• tip off

tip (plural tips)

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

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:tip.

• PIT, PTI, TPI, pit, tpi

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtip/
• Rhymes: -ip

tip (feminine tipa, masculine plural tips, feminine plural tipes)

1. full, as in sated or satisfied (including to excess)

tip m (plural tips)

1. excess (of food or drink)

• Hyphenation: tip

From English tip (“a gratuity”).

tip

1. a tip; a gratuity

tip

1. to tip; to give a small gratuity

Short for English tip sheet.

tip

1. a lottery tip sheet

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From Middle Dutch tip.

tip m (plural tippen, diminutive tipje n)

1. tip, extreme end of something

   Synonyms: eind, einde, end, punt, uiteinde

• piek
• top

Borrowed from English tip.

tip m (plural tips, diminutive tipje n)

1. tip, small amount of money left for a waiter, taxi driver, etc. as a token of appreciation

   Synonym: fooi

2. tip, piece of good advice

• hint

See the etymology of the main entry.

tip

1. first-person singular present indicative of tippen
2. imperative of tippen

• pit

French type, Latin typus

• IPA^(key): /ˈtip/

tip m (plural tipi, feminine equivalent tipă)

1. guy

tip n (plural tipuri)

1. prototype, model
2. type, style

• prototip (1)
• fel (2)

From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”).

• IPA^(key): /tîːp/

tȋp m (Cyrillic spelling ти̑п)

1. type
2. (colloquial) person (usually male), guy

• IPA^(key): /ˈtíːp/
• Tonal orthography: tȋp

típ m inan (genitive típa, nominative plural típi)

1. type

tip m (plural tips)

1. tip (advice)

• IPA^(key): [tip]

tip (definite accusative tipi, plural tipler)

1. type
2. (colloquial) strange or peculiar person