tipper
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪpə(r)
Noun
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.
Synonyms
- (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck
Etymology 2
So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
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