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tip one's hat

tip one's hat verb: to briefly remove or tap one's hat as a gesture of greeting, deference, or respect.

Verb

tip one's hat (third-person singular simple present tips one's hat, present participle tipping one's hat, simple past and past participle tipped one's hat)

  1. To briefly remove or tap one's hat as a gesture of greeting, deference, or respect.
  2. (idiomatic) To acknowledge or show respect; to honor.
    • I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.

Forms of tip one's hat

third-person singular presenttips one's hat
present participletipping one's hat
past participletipped one's hat
pasttipped one's hat

Questions about tip one's hat

What does tip one's hat mean?
Tip one's hat means to briefly remove or tap one's hat as a gesture of greeting, deference, or respect.
What part of speech is tip one's hat?
Tip one's hat is a verb.
What is the past tense of tip one's hat?
The past tense of tip one's hat is tipped one's hat.

Words near tip one's hat in the dictionary

  1. tip of the iceberg
  2. tip of the spear
  3. tip of the Stetson
  4. tip off
  5. tip one's hand
  6. tip one's hat
  7. tip out
  8. tip outs
  9. tip over
  10. tip overs
  11. tip sheet

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