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tip it down

tip it down verb: to rain very heavily.

Verb

tip it down (third-person singular simple present tips it down, present participle tipping it down, simple past and past participle tipped it down)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, impersonal, informal) To rain very heavily.
    • It's tipping it down out there.

Synonyms of tip it down

Forms of tip it down

third-person singular presenttips it down
present participletipping it down
past participletipped it down
pasttipped it down
alternative formtip down

Questions about tip it down

What does tip it down mean?
Tip it down means to rain very heavily.
What part of speech is tip it down?
Tip it down is a verb.
What is the past tense of tip it down?
The past tense of tip it down is tipped it down.

Words near tip it down in the dictionary

  1. tip cup
  2. tip cups
  3. tip down
  4. tip drill
  5. tip drills
  6. tip it down
  7. tip jar
  8. tip jars
  9. tip of the hat
  10. tip of the ice cube
  11. tip of the iceberg

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