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tip-off
[ tip-awf, -of ]
noun
- the act of tipping off.
- a hint or warning:
They got a tip-off on the raid.
tip-off
noun
- a warning or hint, esp given confidentially and based on inside information
- basketball the act or an instance of putting the ball in play by a jump ball
verb
- tr, adverb to give a hint or warning to
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tip-off1
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Idioms and Phrases
Supply with secret or private information; also, warn or alert. For example, The broker often tipped her off about stocks about to go down in price , or Somehow they were tipped off and left the country before the police could catch them . [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Discover More
Example Sentences
A tip-off from British intelligence led to his arrest and subsequent conviction.
Jacques nodded, explaining that the message, relayed by tip-off men to his uncle, had been intended for Joe Matt.
And if that doesn't mean anything to you, here's the tip-off.
That's the tip-off; when a souse won't listen to your gentle voice, it's time to change your system of approach.
He realized that the act had been an immediate tip-off to the occupants of the other rocket.
The tip-off was the hundred percent pregnancy of one whole test-batch.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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