tip
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Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English tæppa.
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tip (plural tips)
- The extreme top 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.
- 1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. [from 15th c.]
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to tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- (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 [...].
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V:
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Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.
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to tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- (transitive) To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn. [from early 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To fall over. [from earlier 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; 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 [...].
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- (transitive, slang, dated) To drink. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To dump (refuse). [from 19th c.]
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tip (plural tips)
- (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle. [from 17th c.]
- An act of tipping up or tilting. [from 19th c.]
- (New Zealand, British, Australian) 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.]
- 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
- 2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
- (colloquial) A very untidy place. [from 20th c.]
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[edit] Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.
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to tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
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tip (plural tips)
[edit] Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.
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to tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- (thieves' slang) To give, pass. [from early 17th c.]
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. [from early 18th c.]
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tip (plural tips)
- An example of this; now generally 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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
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Probably from to tip (“‘give, pass’”) or to tip (“‘tap’”), or a combination of the two.
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tip (plural tips)
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [from mid-19th c.]
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to tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. [from later 19th c.]
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tip m. (feminine tipa, masculine plural tips, feminine plural tipes)
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tip m. (plural tips)
- excess (of food or drink)
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- IPA: /'tip/
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tip m. (plural tipi; feminine equivalent tipă)
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From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos), “‘mark, impression, type’”).
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- IPA: /tîːp/
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tȋp m. (Cyrillic spelling ти̑п)
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| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | tȋp | típovi |
| genitive | tipa | típōvā |
| dative | tipu | tipovima |
| accusative | tip | tipove |
| vocative | tipu | tipovi |
| locative | tipu | tipovima |
| instrumental | tipom | tipovima |
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- IPA: [t̪ip]
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tip
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- IPA: [tip]
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tip
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| nominative | singular | plural |
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| benim (my) | tipim | tiplerim |
| senin (your) | tipin | tiplerin |
| onun (his/her/its) | tipi | tipleri |
| bizim (our) | tipimiz | tiplerimiz |
| sizin (your) | tipiniz | tipleriniz |
| onların (their) | tipleri | tipleri |
| accusative | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| benim (my) | tipimi | tiplerimi |
| senin (your) | tipini | tiplerini |
| onun (his/her/its) | tipini | tiplerini |
| bizim (our) | tipimizi | tiplerimizi |
| sizin (your) | tipinizi | tiplerinizi |
| onların (their) | tiplerini | tiplerini |
| dative | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| benim (my) | tipime | tiplerime |
| senin (your) | tipine | tiplerine |
| onun (his/her/its) | tipine | tiplerine |
| bizim (our) | tipimize | tiplerimize |
| sizin (your) | tipinize | tiplerinize |
| onların (their) | tiplerine | tiplerine |
| locative | singular | plural |
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| benim (my) | tipimde | tiplerimde |
| senin (your) | tipinde | tiplerinde |
| onun (his/her/its) | tipinde | tiplerinde |
| bizim (our) | tipimizde | tiplerimizde |
| sizin (your) | tipinizde | tiplerinizde |
| onların (their) | tiplerinde | tiplerinde |
| ablative | singular | plural |
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| benim (my) | tipimden | tiplerimden |
| senin (your) | tipinden | tiplerinden |
| onun (his/her/its) | tipinden | tiplerinden |
| bizim (our) | tipimizden | tiplerimizden |
| sizin (your) | tipinizden | tiplerinizden |
| onların (their) | tiplerinden | tiplerinden |
| genitive | singular | plural |
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| benim (my) | tipimin | tiplerimin |
| senin (your) | tipinin | tiplerinin |
| onun (his/her/its) | tipinin | tiplerinin |
| bizim (our) | tipimizin | tiplerimizin |
| sizin (your) | tipinizin | tiplerinizin |
| onların (their) | tiplerinin | tiplerinin |