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say it: tip
tip is a verb and noun meaning "cause to tilt". It is pronounced /ˈtɪp/ — tip. It carries 14 recorded senses.
give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
“Remember to tip the waiter”
“fee the steward”
a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
a V shape
“the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tip come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.