tipper

English

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -ɪpə(r)

Etymology 1

tip +‎ -er

Noun

tipper (plural tippers)

1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.

   The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.

2. (slang) A small moustache.
3. A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.

Synonyms

• (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

Etymology 2

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

Noun

tipper

1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.

Anagrams

• Trippe

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Verb

tipper

1. present tense of tippe