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tipping the wink

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

Meaning of tip the wink

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive, dated, idiomatic, slang) To give (somebody) a hint or suggestion, as if by a wink; to ask or tell surreptitiously.
    • Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink
      But spare your censure; Silia does not drinka. 1743, Alexander Pope, Epistle to a Lady

Questions about tipping the wink

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

Words near tipping the wink in the dictionary

  1. tipping the daddle
  2. tipping the double
  3. tipping the gaff
  4. tipping the scale
  5. tipping the scales
  6. tipping the wink
  7. tipping up
  8. tipping-point state
  9. tipping-point states
  10. tippings
  11. Tippins

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