toe-dipping

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
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