wing tip

1. 1.

   a shoe having a wing-tip toecap

   Broadershoe

   Partswing tip
2. 2.

   a decorative toecap having a point extending toward the throat of the shoe

   Broadertoecap

   Part ofwing tip

Questions about wing tip

What does wing tip mean?

wing tip means "a shoe having a wing-tip toecap". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is wing tip a common word?

wing tip 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.