TIP Tip, n. Etym: [See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow.]
1. A light touch or blow; a tap.
2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]
3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]
TIPCART
Tip"cart`, n.
Defn: A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.
TIPCAT
Tip"cat`, n.
Defn: A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay.
TIPPER
Tip"per, n.
Defn: A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; — so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]