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tips

“tips” is a Latvian word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. type (a model having some defining characteristics; an object with certain characteristic features, properties)
  2. type (a category, group, model etc. created by generalizing or idealizing certain features or characteristics)
  3. type (highest category in animal systematics)
  4. type (a group of people with certain characteristics; an individual belonging to this group)
  5. type (artistic image which depicts the most characteristic features of a certain human group)
  6. type, guy, bloke (a man whose appearance or behavior arouses suspicion, a negative attitude)

Etymology

Via some other European language, ultimately borrowed from Latin typus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”).

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