tip in

1. 1.

   a basketball shot made by tapping the rebounding ball back into the basket

   Broaderbasketball shot

Questions about tip in

What does tip in mean?

tip in means "a basketball shot made by tapping the rebounding ball back into the basket".

Is tip in a common word?

tip in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.