toe-dip

Verb

toe-dip (third-person singular simple present toe-dips, present participle toe-dipping, simple past and past participle toe-dipped)

1. (transitive) To dip a toe into something.
   • Thus Clement Stone, though he has toe-dipped and waded and sometimes plunged into many ventures during the course of a busy life, is still inescapably labeled as an insurance man.2010, Max Gunther, The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way
   • All newcomers who plunged or waded or toe-dipped into the market believed, or at least hoped, they had some special insight or cleverness not granted to anybody else.2011, Max Gunther, Wall Street and Witchcraft
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see toe, dip.
   • First she toe-dipped, and squealed, then timidly let herself down the ladder inch by chilly inch.1981, David Littlejohn, Going to California, page 61