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Definition of "tipper" [tip•per]

  • Someone who tips, someone who gives a tip. (noun)
  • A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. (noun)
  • A slang name for a small moustache. (noun)

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Use "tipper" in a sentence
  • "You know, some of the things they say are really hurtful: the fact may be a lousy tipper which is not true by the way, Larry."
  • "Mr. Catt, having unbent among his retainers at a harvest supper, one of them, a little emboldened perhaps by draughts of Newhaven "tipper," thus addressed his master."
  • "When a man has perhaps made fifty pounds by using a "straight tip" as to a horse at Newmarket, in doing which he had of course encountered some risks, he feels he ought not to be made to pay the amount back into the pockets of the "tipper," and at the same time to find himself saddled with the possession of a perfectly useless animal."