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tip-up

tip-up adjective: designed to tilt to a vertical position when not in use, either manually or of its own accord.

Adjective

tip-up (not comparable)

  1. Designed to tilt to a vertical position when not in use, either manually or of its own accord.
    • [...] there is no permanent division between the guard's section, which contains four tip-up seats, and the main passenger saloon.1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 623

Noun

tip-up (plural tip-ups)

  1. A device used in ice fishing, having a flag that is raised to alert the angler when the bait below the ice is taken.

Forms of tip-up

pluraltip-ups

Phrases with tip-up

Questions about tip-up

What does tip-up mean?
Tip-up means designed to tilt to a vertical position when not in use, either manually or of its own accord.
What part of speech is tip-up?
Tip-up can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near tip-up in the dictionary

  1. tip-toe
  2. tip-toes
  3. tip-top
  4. tip-topper
  5. tip-tops
  6. tip-up
  7. tip-up seat
  8. tip-ups
  9. tipa
  10. Tipacan
  11. Tipai

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