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Tipp-Ex

Tipp-Ex is the alternative letter-case form of Tippex.

Meaning of Tippex

Verb

Tippex (third-person singular simple present Tippexes, present participle Tippexing, simple past and past participle Tippexed)

  1. (transitive) To delete using correction fluid.
    • Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.”2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, →ISBN, page 95
    Synonyms:
    white out

See all 3 meanings of tippex

Forms of Tipp-Ex

third-person singular presentTipp-Exes
present participleTipp-Exing
past participleTipp-Exed
pastTipp-Exed

Questions about Tipp-Ex

What is Tipp-Ex the alternative letter-case form of?
Tipp-Ex is the alternative letter-case form of Tippex.

Words near Tipp-Ex in the dictionary

  1. Tipolo
  2. tiponi
  3. tiponis
  4. Tipp
  5. Tipp City
  6. Tipp-Ex
  7. Tipp-Exed
  8. Tipp-Exes
  9. Tipp-Exing
  10. tippa
  11. tippability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tipp-Ex (page history and authors); Tippex (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.

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