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tipping up

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

Meaning of tip up

Verb

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

  1. To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.

Questions about tipping up

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

Words near tipping up in the dictionary

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

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