tip

Pronunciation: /tɪp/

The English word “tip” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
A small piece of meat.
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
The glans penis.
The knocking over of a skittle.
An act of tipping up or tilting.
An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

verb

To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
(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.

Etymology

From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Perhaps distantly related to top. Related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”).…

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