tipper

English

noun
Definitions
  • Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
  • (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.

Etymology

Suffix from English tip (a gratuity, apex, knock over).

Origin

English

tip

Gloss

a gratuity, apex, knock over

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