tipper

IPA: tˈɪpɝ

noun

  • Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
  • (slang) A small moustache.
  • A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
  • A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
  • One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
  • (also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of stock animals; a horn tipper.
  • A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
  • A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
  • A surname from Middle English.
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Examples of "tipper" in Sentences

  • From staking out skydivers to sniffing out a suspiciously big tipper—four decades of frustration.
  • A Remnant found by her warrior angel was a balance tipper from the dark to the Light on the planet.
  • You know, some of the things they say are really hurtful: the fact may be a lousy tipper which is not true by the way, Larry.
  • With recent reports claiming Rob is a “lousy tipper,” the actor is also meeting with the displeasure of New York City bartenders.
  • Nothing, it turns out—neither fame, nor fortune, nor probably even a members-only travel agency—trumps being a loyal customer and a good tipper.
  • Her dad told the San Francisco Chronicle that she made an impressive $36, though most of that appears to have come from generous tipper Billy Ray Cyrus.
  • Well, he has been outed as a poor tipper by some American gossip websites but there is no suggestion that Williams was underpaid by the standard of his peers.
  • Mr. Catt, having unbent among his retainers at a harvest supper, one of them, a little emboldened perhaps by draughts of Newhaven "tipper," thus addressed his master.
  • When a man has perhaps made fifty pounds by using a "straight tip" as to a horse at Newmarket, in doing which he had of course encountered some risks, he feels he ought not to be made to pay the amount back into the pockets of the "tipper," and at the same time to find himself saddled with the possession of a perfectly useless animal.

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