name
Meaning 1
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tipper
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈtɪpɚ/
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UK: /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/
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rhymes with -ɪpə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: T IH1 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
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noun
Meaning 3
A small moustache.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 5
A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
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noun
Meaning 7
A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: also in plural form
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noun
Meaning 8
A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
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noun
Meaning 9
A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
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noun
Meaning 10
truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dump truck, dumper, tipper truck, tipper lorry, tip truck
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Broader terms: truck, motortruck
noun
Meaning 11
a person who leaves a tip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a generous tipper
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Broader terms: donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer
History
Etymology
Probably an occupational surname for a maker of arrowheads, from an agent derivative of Middle English tippe (“head, tip”).
Etymology tree English tip Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English tipper From tip + -er.
So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.