tip
/tɪp/ verb C2- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. · You should always tip your waiter in the United States and most third world countries.
- To give, pass.
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.
“I know it,” returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail.
I think I can swim to the shore and pull the raft after me, if you will only hold fast to the tip of my tail.”
As for the Lion, he wiped his eyes so often with the tip of his tail that it became quite wet, and he was obliged to go out into the courtyard and hold it in the sun till it dried.
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