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  1. noun The end of a pointed or projecting object.
  2. noun A piece or an attachment, such as a cap or ferrule, meant to be fitted to the end of something else: the barbed tip of a harpoon.
  3. transitive verb To furnish with a tip.
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  • I knelt behind him and shuffled forward until my tip was almost between his cheeks. —  XXXX
  • The shape of the tip is the most obvious difference between picking tools, with hooks, half-diamond, ball, double ball, wave, sawtooth and other styles available. —  Notes on Picking Pin Tumbler Locks
  • The horde had formed into a huge wedge, of which the tip was the Stygians and the body, the mailed asshuri , flanked by the nomads. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • Now, even when she can get customers to sit up close, the tip is usually a dollar a song. —  Latest Articles
  • The percentage of the tip is anchored to a basic level of service expectation. —  Latest Articles
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edge ·  blade ·  ring ·  shape ·  pair ·  section ·  thrust ·  surface ·  base ·  piece ·  handle ·  point

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tip:   tips ·  tipped ·  tipping
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Etymologies (9)

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  1. Middle English.
  2. Middle English tipen.
  3. From Middle English tippe, a tap, perhaps of Low German origin.
  4. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English tip, typ, tippe (not found in Anglo-Saxon) =Middle Dutch, Dutch tip =Low German tipp =Middle High German zipf =Swedish tipp =Danish tip, tip. end, point; also, in diminutive form, Middle Dutch tippel, tepel, Dutch tepel, nipple, =Middle High German G. zipfel, tip, point; Middle Dutch tipken, tip, nipple, Dutch tipje =Low German tipje, tip, nipple; apparently a derived form, and generally regarded as a diminutive, of top (cf. tiptop); but the phonetic relations present a difficulty. Cf. Icelandic typpi, a tip, from toppr, top: see top. Prob. two forms, one related to top, and the other related to tap, are confused. So the verb tip is apparently related to tap.
  2. from Middle English tippen; from tip, n. Perhaps in part related to tip, v.
  3. Early modern English also *typpe, type; from Middle English tippen, tipen, tip, overthrow, from Swedish tippa, strike lightly, tap, tip, =Low German tippen =G. tüpfen, tupfen, touch lightly, tap; apparently a secondary form, felt as a diminutive, of tap; but the relation with tapis uncertain.
  4. from tip, v.
  5. Perhaps from tip, v. Cf. tipple, tipsy.
 

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