tipper

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪpə(r)

Etymology 1

tip + -er

Noun

tipper (plural 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. A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
  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.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tipper

  1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.

Anagrams


Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tipper

  1. present of tippe
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