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tip up

tip up verb: to tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.

Verb

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

  1. To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.

Forms of tip up

third-person singular presenttips up
present participletipping up
past participletipped up
pasttipped up

Questions about tip up

What does tip up mean?
Tip up means to tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.
What part of speech is tip up?
Tip up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tip up?
The past tense of tip up is tipped up.

Words near tip up in the dictionary

  1. tip the wink
  2. tip tool
  3. tip tools
  4. tip truck
  5. tip trucks
  6. tip up
  7. tip wage credit
  8. tip wage credits
  9. tip wilter
  10. tip wilters
  11. tip-bait

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