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Webster 1913 Edition

Tip

Tip

,
Noun.
[Akin to D. & Dan.
tip
, LG. & Sw.
tipp
, G.
zipfel
, and probably to E.
tap
a plug, a pipe.]
1.
The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end;
as, the
tip
of the finger; the
tip
of a spear
.
To the very
tip
of the nose.
Shakespeare
2.
An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything;
as, a
tip
for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
3.
(Hat Manuf.)
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
4.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel’s hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
5.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

Tip

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tipped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tipping
.]
To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of;
as, to
tip
anything with gold or silver
.
With truncheon
tipped
with iron head.
Hudibras.
Tipped
with jet,
Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Thomson.

Tip

,
Verb.
T.
[Cf. LG.
tippen
to tap, Sw.
tippa
, and E.
tap
to strike gently.]
1.
To strike slightly; to tap.
A third rogue
tips
me by the elbow.
Swift.
2.
To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to;
as, to
tip
a servant
.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.
3.
To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt;
as, to
tip
a cask; to
tip
a cart
.
To tip off
,
to pour out, as liquor.
–
To tip over
,
to overturn.
–
To tip the wink
,
to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink.
[Slang]
Pope.
–
To tip up
,
to turn partly over by raising one end.

Tip

,
Verb.
I.
To fall on, or incline to, one side.
Bunyan.
To tip off
,
to fall off by tipping.

Tip

,
Noun.
[See
Tip
to strike slightly, and cf.
Tap
a slight blow.]
1.
A light touch or blow; a tap.
2.
A gift; a douceur; a fee.
[Colloq.]
3.
A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.
[Sporting Cant]

Webster 1828 Edition

Tip

TIP

, n.
1.
The end; the point or extremity of any thing small; as the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear; the tip of the tongue; the tip of the ear.
2.
One part of the play at nine-pins.
3.
In botany, an anther.

TIP

,
Verb.
T.
To form a point with something; to cover the tip, top or end; a, to tip any thing with gold or silver.
With truncheon tipp'd with iron head.
Tipp'd with jet,
Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
1.
[for tap.] To strike slightly, or with the end of any thing small; to tap.
A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
2.
To lower one end, or throw upon the end; as, to tip a cart for discharging a load. [N. England.]
To tip the wink, to direct a wink, or to wink to another for notice.

TIP

,
Verb.
I.
In the phrase, to tip off, that is, to fall headlong; hence, to die.

Definition 2024

Tip

Tip

See also: tip, TIP, típ, TİP, and tip-

German

Noun

Tip m ‎(genitive Tips, plural Tips)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Tipp

Declension

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

Compare English tip.

Noun

Tip m

  1. tip; point; end

Synonyms

tip

tip

See also: Tip, TIP, típ, TİP, and tip-

English

Noun

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 1441263039):
      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.

Synonyms
Translations

Verb

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 [...].
    • Hudibras
      truncheon tipped with iron head
    • Thomson
      Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. [From 20th c.]
  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.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

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.]
  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.
Translations

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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.]
    • Jonathan Swift
      A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

Noun

tip ‎(plural tips)

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

Etymology 4

Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin.

Verb

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.]
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

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.
Translations
Synonyms

Etymology 5

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

Noun

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.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

Verb

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.]
Derived terms
Translations
Translations

Etymology 6

Noun

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.

References

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:tip.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tip/
  • Rhymes: -ip

Adjective

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

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

Noun

tip m ‎(plural tips)

  1. excess (of food or drink)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

tip c ‎(plural tips, diminutive tipje n)

  1. piece of good advice

See also

Verb

tip

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

Anagrams

Lojban

Rafsi

tip

  1. rafsi of tikpa.

Romanian

Etymology

French type, Latin typus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtip/

Noun

tip m ‎(plural tipi, feminine equivalent tipă)

  1. guy

Declension

Noun

tip n ‎(plural tipuri)

  1. prototype, model
  2. type, style

Declension

Synonyms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tîːp/

Noun

tȋp m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ти̑п)

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

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

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

Noun

típ m inan ‎(genitive típa, nominative plural típi)

  1. type

Declension

Spanish

Noun

tip m ‎(plural tips)

  1. tip (advice)

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tip]

Noun

tip ‎(definite accusative tipi, plural tipler)

  1. type

Declension

Etymology

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, ****”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe ‎(“tip”), West Frisian timpe ‎(“tip”), Old English tæppa, Albanian thep ‎(“tip, point”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /tɪp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

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