Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal One who sells tips or information, as to bettors or speculators.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person specially employed in furnishing tips or secret information to persons interested, for betting or speculative purposes, in the issue of horse-races, the rise and fall of stocks, etc.: distinguished from a tout, who may be in the tipster's employment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon the probable outcome of events, as horse races.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
Examples
“The tipster is later identified as Trevor Graham, a sprint coach whose clients include Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Justin Gatlin.”
“I haven’t tried anything yet, but early word from a tipster is that the saag paneer is “pretty good”.”
“And according to my original tipster from the area, ” Indian Fast Food” hasbeen serving the stale pita bread that I got on my original visit, more and more these days.”
“More investigation determines the tipster is a fraud.”
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“The so-called tipster says he never said any such thing.”
“King County prosecutors said the tipster was a San Diego man who was facing 42 years in prison for years of abusing a boy he was mentoring.”
“The brass-playing brotherhood has nothing on me in the wake of a weekend described as a tipster's nightmare.”
“Our tipster was a member of the Newton team when Steve Jobs made his return to Apple in 1996, with mixed memories of the homecoming:”
“John Walsh, the program's host, called the tipster, who has insisted on anonymity, "a real hero.”
“I think tipster aka informant needs to be arrested brought in for questioning.”
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Cepstrums
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acedy, stutter, tipster, toosh, spitter, tapster, spatter, tutster, teaser, saeter, sooth, tierer and 202 more...
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Here's a tip for you.
tip, tips, Tip, tipping, tip jar, tip-cat, tip-cheese, Tippi Hedren, tipi, Tipperary, tipsy, Tip O'Neill and 75 more...
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spin trick ham - road game for shy huck
spinster, trickster, hamster, roadster, gamester, forster, shyster, huckster, lobster, bolster, dumpster, dragster and 15 more...
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