Meaning

8 senses
  1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.

    The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.

  2. (slang)A small moustache.

  3. (UK)A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.

  4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.

  5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.

  6. A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.

  7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).

    a person who leaves a tip

  8. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom isn't a big tipper.

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  2. Tom is a big tipper.

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  3. Tom is a good tipper.

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Origin

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

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Forms

plural: tippers
Singulartipper
Pluraltippers

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
gratuity:nontipper

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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