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tip someone's velvet

tip someone's velvet verb: to give oral sex to a female.

Verb

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

  1. (euphemistic, slang) To give oral sex to a female.
    • Then we fell to kissing furiously and I tipped her velvet […]1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), page 181
    • […] not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.2007, Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs

Forms of tip someone's velvet

third-person singular presenttips someone's velvet
present participletipping someone's velvet
past participletipped someone's velvet
pasttipped someone's velvet

Origin of tip someone's velvet

A faux-Victorian expression invented by novelist Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998). Perhaps relatedly, John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) gives velvet as a slang term for the tongue.

Questions about tip someone's velvet

What does tip someone's velvet mean?
Tip someone's velvet means to give oral sex to a female.
What part of speech is tip someone's velvet?
Tip someone's velvet is a verb.
What is the past tense of tip someone's velvet?
The past tense of tip someone's velvet is tipped someone's velvet.

Words near tip someone's velvet in the dictionary

  1. tip overs
  2. tip sheet
  3. tip sheets
  4. tip shop
  5. tip shops
  6. tip someone's velvet
  7. tip the balance
  8. tip the can
  9. tip the daddle
  10. tip the double
  11. tip the gaff

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