tipper
See also: Tipper
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Noun edit
tipper (plural tippers)
- Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
- The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
- (slang) A small moustache.
- A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
- A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
- One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
- (also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of stock animals; a horn tipper.
- A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
- 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
- The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.
Synonyms edit
- (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "gratuity"): nontipper
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Etymology 2 edit
So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
Noun edit
tipper
- A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
- a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper
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