tipper

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From tip +‎ -er.

Noun

tipper (plural tippers)

  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. (also in plural form) 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).
    • 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.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

tipper

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

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Verb

tipper

  1. present tense of tippe
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