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tip-toe

tip-toe is the alternative form of tiptoe.

Meaning of tiptoe

Verb

tiptoe (third-person singular simple present tiptoes, present participle tiptoeing, simple past and past participle tiptoed)

  1. (intransitive) To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
    • We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 8
    Synonyms:
    tip

See all 5 meanings of tiptoe

Forms of tip-toe

Verb
third-person singular presenttip-toes
present participletip-toeing
past participletip-toed
pasttip-toed
Noun
pluraltip-toes

Questions about tip-toe

What is tip-toe the alternative form of?
Tip-toe is the alternative form of tiptoe.

Words near tip-toe in the dictionary

  1. tip-baits
  2. tip-cat
  3. tip-cats
  4. tip-off
  5. tip-offs
  6. tip-toe
  7. tip-toes
  8. tip-top
  9. tip-topper
  10. tip-tops
  11. tip-up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tip-toe (page history and authors); tiptoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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