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What does "tip" mean?

Tip: An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Hat Manuf.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
  2. 3.A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
  3. 4.Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
  4. 5.To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.
  5. 6.To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.
  6. 7.To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
  7. 8.To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor. -- To tip over, to overturn. -- To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.
  8. 9.To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping.
  9. 10.A light touch or blow; a tap.
  10. 11.A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]
  11. 12.A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]

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