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Definition of "tip over" [tip over]

  • An action where the goalkeeper deflects the ball over the crossbar. (noun)
  • (to cause) to topple over and fall (verb)

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Use "tip over" in a sentence
  • "I drive down out of Castle Cary, where the evening before had been calm, and I had witnessed a posse of badgers sauntering nonchalantly along the street beneath Lodge Hill, knocking the tops off dustbins like teenagers and rifling them, even pausing to tip over the ice-cream sign outside the newsagents."
  • "Piccinni was rocking the cradle of his youngest child, born that same year; another of his children tugged at his coat to make him tip over the cradle; the mother revelling in the spectacle."
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