tip

1. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.Examples: "I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...]."; "truncheon tipped with iron head"; "The furry nations harbour-tipt with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press."transitive

1. (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.ergative

2. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.Examples: "the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]"; "There is little chance that the EU’s watchdogs have, until now, simply missed the evidence of a deeper malaise. The red flags signalling a democratic deficit have always been prominent: from the long-standing harassment, detention, and assassination of peaceful human rights defenders like Chea Vichea, Chut Wutty, and Tep Vanny, to ratcheting up efforts to deter civil society organisation through dubious, hostile legislation. More likely, the trade-offs between popular power and stability have been weighed by the EU and accepted, where these have tipped in its favour—in this case, shoring up a regional ally and trading partner, as well as delivering rapid rates of economic growth that have won Cambodia middle-income status, thus serving up a ready exemplar of neoliberal development logic."ergative

3. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.datedslangtransitive

4. (transitive) To dump (refuse).transitive

5. (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.Examples: "I tip my 40 to your memory."UStransitive

6. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.Examples: "Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech."transitive

1. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.obsolete

2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.Examples: "There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly."; "1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389, As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane."; "2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip."CommonwealthIrelandUK

3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.CommonwealthIrelandUK

4. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.CommonwealthIrelandUKbroadly

5. (colloquial) A very untidy place.colloquial

1. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.Examples: "A third rogue tips me by the elbow."archaic

1. (now rare) A light blow or tap.archaic