tip
/tɪp/ verb B2- (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- To drink.
- To dump (refuse).
- To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
He/she/it tips · Past tipped · Past participle tipped · -ing form tipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- tip
- He/she/it
- tips
- Past
- tipped
- Past participle
- tipped
- -ing form
- tipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- tip back To drink a beverage, especially alcoholic and in large am...
- tip off To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
- tip out To provide a percentage of tips to certain co-workers who...
- tip out To extract (something) by tipping over the container that...
- tip over (to cause) to topple over and fall
- tip up To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.
From the library
While Madame de Villefort remained rooted to the spot like a statue of terror, and Villefort, with his head hidden in the bedclothes, saw nothing around him, d’Avrigny approached the window, that he might the better examine the contents of the glass, and dipping the tip of his finger in, tasted it.
After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
“I know it,” returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail.
Then the Lion put his strong front legs against the tree and pushed with all his might, and slowly the big tree tipped and fell with a crash across the ditch, with its top branches on the other side.
Other matches
- tip The extreme end of something, especially when p... A2
- tip To provide with a tip C2
- tip To give a small gratuity to, especially to an e... C2
- tip To give a piece of private information to C2
- tip A gratuity C2
- tip A piece of private or secret information, espec... C2
- tip An act of tipping up or tilting. C2
- tip A kick or phase C2
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