tip someone's velvet

English

Etymology

A faux-Victorian expression invented by novelist Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998).

Verb

tip someone's velvet (third-person singular simple present tips someone's velvet, present participle tipping someone's velvet, simple past and past participle tipped someone's velvet)

1. (euphemistic) To give oral sex to someone (female).
   • 1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), page 181:

     Then we fell to kissing furiously and I tipped her velvet […]

   • 2007, Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs:

     […] not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.