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footy tipping

footy tipping noun: a competition where entrants aim to predict the winners of football matches over the course of the season.

Noun

footy tipping (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) A competition where entrants aim to predict the winners of football matches over the course of the season.
    • Chris has won the footy tipping at his nursing home two years in a row by blinking his selections and is now eating lunch after his parents were told he would never eat solid food again.2012 November 2, Fiona Henderson, “Ballarat's OAM Mary Nolan is fighting for change”, in The Courier
    • They chatted about the rescue, how mutual acquaintances in the community were faring and the footy tipping before Shorten was interrupted by a couple full of praise.2016 May 9, Adam Morton, “Election 2016: Bill Shorten, man-of-the-workers, returns to Beaconsfield”, in The Age

Origin of footy tipping

Compound of footy + tipping.

Questions about footy tipping

What does footy tipping mean?
Footy tipping means a competition where entrants aim to predict the winners of football matches over the course of the season.
What part of speech is footy tipping?
Footy tipping is a noun.

Words near footy tipping in the dictionary

  1. footworn
  2. footwrap
  3. footwraps
  4. footwriting
  5. footy
  6. footy tipping
  7. fooyoung
  8. fooyung
  9. foozle
  10. foozled
  11. foozler

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