tipper

noun — 8 senses

tipper

noun

US /ˈtɪpɚ/ · UK /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/

Etymology From tip + -er.

7 senses
  1. 1Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
  2. 2A small moustache.
  3. 3A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying…
  4. 4A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
  5. 5One who gives private hints about racing or financial…
  6. 6A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of…
  7. 7A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste…
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

A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.

Also in plural form

7

A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).

  • The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
Synonyms
dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck
Antonyms
nontipper
Derived terms
bin tipper, cow tipper, fly-tipper, flytipper, Tipper and See-Saw Time
Related terms
tipping, dumpcart, dumper, tumbril

tipper

noun

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

1

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

  • a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

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