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overtip

overtip verb: to leave a tip that is too large.

Verb

overtip (third-person singular simple present overtips, present participle overtipping, simple past and past participle overtipped)

  1. (ambitransitive) To leave a tip that is too large.
    • She had been overtipping for as long as she’d had money. These small compensations for how fortunate she’d been.2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 205
  2. To tip over.

Forms of overtip

third-person singular presentovertips
present participleovertipping
past participleovertipped
pastovertipped

Origin of overtip

From over- + tip.

Questions about overtip

What does overtip mean?
Overtip means to leave a tip that is too large.
What part of speech is overtip?
Overtip is a verb.
What is the past tense of overtip?
The past tense of overtip is overtipped.

Words near overtip in the dictionary

  1. overtimorousness
  2. overtint
  3. overtinted
  4. overtinting
  5. overtints
  6. overtip
  7. overtipped
  8. overtipping
  9. overtips
  10. overtire
  11. overtired

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