tipper

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪpə(r)

Etymology 1

tip +‎ -er

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.

Synonyms

(goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tipper

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

Anagrams

Trippe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tipper

present tense of tippe

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