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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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... and large, glossy, dark-green leaves spread perhaps ninety feet above his head, he reached the nearer boughs with an omei, a very long stick with a forked end to which was attached a small net of cocoanut fiber. Deftly twisting a fruit from its stem by a dexterous jerk of the cleft tip, he caught it in the net, and lowered it to the kooka on the ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... is a strange thing. First, perhaps, rides a shepherd, erect and careless in his saddle, the red light glowing from the tip of his cigarette; and beside his horse a collie-dog, nosing at objects, but always with ears for the sheep and the voice of ...

— The Free Range • Francis William Sullivan

... And with the pleasantest, most off-hand air. It was on the tip of my tongue to reply: 'Fortunately, science never loses anything in these people she ...

— The Glory Of The Conquered • Susan Glaspell

... to the railway station where race-cards are being sold. The racing-man buys a "card" and several papers. He looks down the lists of the horses again in the train, and tries to make up his mind whether to take the tobacconist's tip and back Green Cloak for the first race. He believes greatly in breeding, and by far the best-bred horse in the race is Liberal, who has three Derby winners in his pedigree. Then there is Red Rose, who created a ...

— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... live lion stuffed with straw; a zebra that had fifty stripes from the tip of his nose to his tail, nary stripe alike; a laughing hyena of the desert, who could cry like a child when he was hungry, and who devoured the people who came to his assistance, thereby showing the total depravity of human nature; an elephant that ...

— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas

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