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tips up

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

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

Words near tips up in the dictionary

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

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