Word.ws English Dictionary

tipcats

tipcats is the plural of tipcat.

Meaning of tipcat

Noun

tipcat (countable and uncountable, plural tipcats)

  1. (uncountable) A traditional children's game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.
    • In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.1838, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
  2. (countable) The wooden piece used in this game.
    Synonyms:
    cat

Questions about tipcats

What is tipcats the plural of?
Tipcats is the plural of tipcat.

Words near tipcats in the dictionary

  1. tipas
  2. tipburn
  3. tipcart
  4. tipcarts
  5. tipcat
  6. tipcats
  7. Tipene
  8. tipepidine
  9. tipflation
  10. tipful
  11. tipfuls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tipcats (page history and authors); tipcat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tipcats.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tipcats. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.