tip
IPA: tˈɪp
noun
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- (UK, 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.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- (now rare) A light blow or tap.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A piece of advice.
- (Australia) A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- (computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).
- (sports) Abbreviation of Tipperary. [A county of Ireland.]
- (possibly offensive) Initialism of trans-identified person.
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
- (transitive) To dump (refuse).
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- (Australia) To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
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