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Tip

noun

1.

The extreme end of something; especially something pointed.

2.

A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire.

3.

An indication of potential opportunity. Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, wind. "A good lead for a job"

4.

A V shape. Synonyms: peak, point.

5.

The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill). Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, summit, top. "They clambered to the tip of Monadnock" , "The region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

verb

(past & past part. tipped; pres. part. tipping)

1.

Cause to tilt.

2.

Mark with a tip.

3.

Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on. Synonyms: bung, fee. "Fee the steward"

4.

Cause to topple or tumble by pushing. Synonyms: topple, tumble.

5.

To incline or bend from a vertical position. Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tilt.

6.

Walk on one's toes. Synonyms: tippytoe, tiptoe.

7.

Strike lightly. Synonym: tap.

8.

Give insider information or advise to. Synonym: tip off.

9.

Remove the tip from.

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"Tip" Quotes from Famous Books

... have to go on with it," said Tom. "Not only this exploration of the asteroid belt, but we'll have to wait for Vidac to really tip his hand." ...

— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell

... of twenty-five into whose vagina it was impossible to pass the tip of the first finger on account of the dense cicatricial membrane in the orifice, but who gave birth, with comparative ease, to a child at full term, the only interference necessary being a few slight incisions to permit the passage of the head. Tweedie saw ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... then a squeak on the other side of the tree; I looked round the trunk, and beheld a curious combat between two hares and a stoat. The hares were male and female, and had their leveret between them, which latter was not above six weeks old. The stoat—a little devil with all its hair, from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, standing at end—was at about two yards distance from them, working round and round to have an opportunity to spring upon the leveret, which was the object of its attack. As it went round so did the hares face him, pivoting on a centre ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... "You will not disturb me in the least,— unless you talk." She resumed her reading, half a page above the finger tip. ...

— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... in the crook of her elbow, lay a cuddling bundle; a tiny head, all red and bare, as though offering to Judge Priest's own bald, pinkish pate the sincere flattery of imitation, was exposed; and the tip of a very small ear, curled and crinkled like a sea shell. You take the combination of a young mother cradling her first-born within the hollow of her arm and you have the combination which has tautened the heartstrings of man since the first man child came ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

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