Tip Noun Tɪp Money Small Extra Senses Save

• handy tips for buying a computer
• useful tips on how to save money
• here are my top tips for interview success.
• the blog offered various beauty tips.

tip

1. a small piece of advice about something practical
• SYNONYM hint
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hint_2
• handy tips for buying a computer
• useful tips on how to save money
• Here are my top tips for interview success.
• The blog offered various beauty tips.
• His money tips and tricks could save a typical family up to £6 000 a year.

Extra Examples

• Follow these tips to improve your communication skills.
• I picked up some useful tips from my ski instructor.
• Take a safety tip from me—get that light fixed!
• Share your gardening tips with other readers.
2. a secret or expert piece of advice about what the result of a competition, etc. is likely to be, especially about which horse is likely to win a race
• a hot tip for the big race
3. secret information that somebody gives, for example to the police, to warn them about an illegal activity that is going to happen or has happened
• The man was arrested after an anonymous tip.
4. a small amount of extra money that you give to somebody, for example somebody who serves you in a restaurant
• to leave a tip
• He gave the waiter a generous tip.
• Someone put a dollar in the tip jar.

Extra Examples

• He left the waitress a large tip.
• We get fewer tips on weeknights.
• Are we supposed to leave a tip?
5. the thin, pointed end of something
• SEE ALSO fingertip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fingertip
• the tips of your fingers
• the tip of your nose
• the northern tip of the island

Extra Examples

• The cat was black except for a patch of white on the very tip of its tail.
• He ran the tips of his fingers over the bruise.
6. a small part that fits on or over the end of something
• SEE ALSO felt-tip pen
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/felt-tip-pen
• a walking stick with a rubber tip
7. a place where you can take rubbish and leave it
8. an untidy place
• SYNONYM dump
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dump_1
• Their flat is a tip!
9. if a word or name is on the tip of your tongue, you are sure that you know it but you cannot remember it
10. only a small part of a much larger problem
• This figure represents only the tip of the iceberg, since as many as 90% of cases go unreported.

Word Origin

• noun senses 1 to 2 late Middle English: from Old Norse typpi (noun), typpa (verb), typptr ‘tipped’; related to the noun top. noun senses 3 to 5 late Middle English: perhaps of Scandinavian origin, influenced later by tip in the sense ‘touch with a tip or point’. Current senses of the noun date from the mid 19th cent. noun senses 6 to 7 early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘give, hand, pass’): probably from tip ‘thin pointed end of something’.