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tipping out

tipping out is the present participle and gerund of tip out.

Meaning of tip out

Verb (1)

tip out (third-person singular simple present tips out, present participle tipping out, simple past and past participle tipped out)

  1. (transitive) To extract (something) by tipping over the container that contains it.
    • After baking and cooling, tip the cake out of its pan.

Verb (2)

tip out (third-person singular simple present tips out, present participle tipping out, simple past and past participle tipped out)

  1. To provide a percentage of tips to certain co-workers who support the work done by the waiter.
    • It was my first day on the job, so when I tipped out the bus boy but didn't tip out the bartender, my shift supervisor let me know that bartenders should be tipped out too, and to make sure that my tip outs were at least 5% of my day's total tips.

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Questions about tipping out

What is tipping out the present participle and gerund of?
Tipping out is the present participle and gerund of tip out.

Words near tipping out in the dictionary

  1. tipping element
  2. tipping elements
  3. tipping it down
  4. tipping off
  5. tipping one's hat
  6. tipping out
  7. tipping over
  8. tipping point
  9. tipping points
  10. tipping someone's velvet
  11. tipping the balance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tipping out (page history and authors); tip out (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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