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tipline

tipline noun: a hotline allowing callers to tip off the authorities.

Noun

tipline (plural tiplines)

  1. A hotline allowing callers to tip off the authorities.
    • Some tiplines assign a special number to each caller to ensure that a particular caller gets credit for the tip.1999, Shay Bilchik, When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, page 59
    • They hold classes online to teach safety and have one of the most popular volunteer tiplines at the site to report cybercrimes against children.2001, Carlos A. Arnaldo, Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence, page 211

Forms of tipline

pluraltiplines

Origin of tipline

From tip + line.

Questions about tipline

What does tipline mean?
Tipline means a hotline allowing callers to tip off the authorities.
What part of speech is tipline?
Tipline is a noun.
What is the plural of tipline?
The plural of tipline is tiplines.

Words near tipline in the dictionary

  1. Tiplerian
  2. Tiplers
  3. tiples
  4. tipless
  5. tiplessness
  6. tipline
  7. tiplines
  8. tipmost
  9. Tipo
  10. Tipo-Tipo
  11. tipoff

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