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tipper

UK/ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/US/ˈtɪpɚ/

tipper noun: someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.

Noun (1)

tipper (plural tippers)

  1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
    • The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
  2. (slang) A small moustache.
  3. (UK) A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
  4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
  5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
  6. (also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
  7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
    • The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11

Noun (2)

tipper

  1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
    • a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Tipper

Tipper (plural Tippers)

  1. A surname from Middle English.

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Forms of tipper

Noun
pluraltippers
Proper noun
pluralTippers

Plural of tipper: tippers

Origin of tipper

From tip + -er.

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

Probably an occupational surname for a maker of arrowheads, from an agent derivative of Middle English tippe (“head, tip”).

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Phrases with tipper

Words that rhyme with tipper

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Questions about tipper

What does tipper mean?
Tipper means someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
What part of speech is tipper?
Tipper can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tipper?
Tipper is pronounced /ˈtɪpɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of tipper?
The plural of tipper is tippers.

Words near tipper in the dictionary

  1. tipped up
  2. tipped-up
  3. tippee
  4. tippees
  5. Tippell
  6. tipper
  7. Tipper and See-Saw Time
  8. tipper lorries
  9. tipper lorry
  10. Tipper sticker
  11. Tipper stickers

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