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overtipping

overtipping is the present participle and gerund of overtip.

Meaning of overtip

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.

Questions about overtipping

What is overtipping the present participle and gerund of?
Overtipping is the present participle and gerund of overtip.

Words near overtipping in the dictionary

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

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