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Adjective: tipped  tipt
  1. Having a tip; or having a tip as specified (used in combination)
    "a rubber-tipped cane"
     
  2. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
    "the tipped tower of Pisa";
    - atilt, canted, leaning, tilted
Verb: tip (tipped,tipping)  tip
  1. Cause to tilt
    "tip the screen upward"
     
  2. Mark with a tip
    "tip the arrow with the small stone"
     
  3. Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
    "Remember to tip the waiter";
    - fee, bung
     
  4. Cause to topple or tumble by pushing
    - topple, tumble
     
  5. To incline or bend from a vertical position
    - lean, tilt, slant, angle
     
  6. Walk on one's toes
    - tiptoe, tippytoe [N. Amer, informal]
     
  7. Strike lightly
    - tap
     
  8. Give insider information or advise to
    "He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot";
    - tip off
     
  9. Remove the tip from
    "tip artichokes"
     
  10. [Brit, informal] Rain heavily
    "Put on your rain coat-- it's tipping outside!";
    - pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs [informal], rain buckets [informal], belt down [informal], pelt down [informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], bucket [Brit, informal], teem [informal]

See also: filter-tipped, inclined, pink-tipped, plume-tipped, spine-tipped, thorn-tipped, yellow-tipped

Type of: advise, bend, counsel, flex, force, gift, give, mark, present, push, rain, rain down, rede [archaic], remove, reorient, strike, take, take away, walk, withdraw

Antonym: untipped

Encyclopedia: Tip, ring and sleeve