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tips the wink

tips the wink is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 tips the wink

What is tips the wink the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tips the wink is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tip the wink.

Words near tips the wink in the dictionary

  1. tips the daddle
  2. tips the double
  3. tips the gaff
  4. tips the scale
  5. tips the scales
  6. tips the wink
  7. tips up
  8. TIPSes
  9. tipsheet
  10. tipsheets
  11. tipsier

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