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verb (tips, tipping, tipped)

• 1overbalance so as to fall or turn over: [no object]:the hay caught fire when the candle tipped over [with object]:a youth sprinted past, tipping over her glass
• be or cause to be in a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other: [with object and adverbial]:I tipped my seat back, preparing myself for sleep [no object, with adverbial]:the car had tipped to one side

• 2 [with object and adverbial of direction] cause (the contents of a container) to be emptied out by holding it at an angle:Sarah tipped the washing-up water down the sink
• [no object] (it tips down, it is tipping down, etc.) British rain heavily.

• 3 [with object] strike or touch lightly:I tipped his hoof with the handle of a knife
• [with object and adverbial of direction] cause (an object) to move somewhere by striking or touching it lightly:his twenty-yard shot was tipped over the bar by Nixon

• 4 [no object] (tip off) Basketball put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.

noun

• 1British a place where rubbish is left: a rubbish tip we’ll have to take it to the tip
• informal a dirty or untidy place:your room’s an absolute tip!

• 2 Baseball a pitched ball that is slightly deflected by the batter.