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tippex

tippex is the alternative letter-case form of Tippex.

Noun capitalized: Tippex

Tippex (uncountable)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
    • If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person...1996, Tamara Goriely, Tom Williams, The Impact of the New Training Scheme: Report on a Qualitative Study
    • Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast.1996, Pat Ingoldsby, Laugh without prejudice, →ISBN, page 164
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.

Verb capitalized: Tippex

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
    • Then, literally out of the blue, it appears as though someone has Tippexed a freehand circle on the surface of the water and splashed a little bleach and blue curaçao within the outline.2005, Belinda Jones, The Paradise Room, →ISBN, page 59
    Synonyms:
    white out

Synonyms of tippex

Forms of tippex

Verb
third-person singular presenttippexes
present participletippexing
past participletippexed
pasttippexed
third-person singular presentTippexes
present participleTippexing
past participleTippexed
pastTippexed
Noun
alternative formTipp-Ex
alternative formtippex

Origin of tippex

Tipp-Ex is originally a trademark, owned since 1997 by Société Bic. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion. The first component is from the German verb tippen (“to type”), and the second from Latin ex.

Questions about tippex

What does tippex mean?
Tippex means a particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
What is tippex the alternative letter-case form of?
Tippex is the alternative letter-case form of Tippex.
What part of speech is tippex?
Tippex can be a noun or a verb.

Words near tippex in the dictionary

  1. tippeth
  2. tippets
  3. Tippett
  4. Tippetts
  5. Tippettses
  6. tippex
  7. tippexed
  8. tippexes
  9. tippexing
  10. Tippie
  11. tippier

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