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ˈtip-off
Also tip off, tipoff.
1. [f. vbl. phr. to tip off: see tip v.5 2.]
a. Information, a ‘tip’, esp. about criminal activity; a hint or ‘give-away’. slang (orig. U.S.).
1901J. F. Willard World of Graft 164 ‘So much down now,’ he said, ‘and so much when the show's over. Otherwise it's a tip-off and pinch.’ 1918H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches iv. i. 142 Nobody knew we was comin' up to the front... The first real tip off was when they served out the identification tags. 1938E. Waugh Scoop ii. xii. 138 Now he had something under his hat; a tip-off straight from headquarters, news of high international importance. 1945Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 23 May 8 One of the first tipoffs on this romance came when La Bacall followed ‘The Leer’ to New York some months ago. 1955W. Tucker Wild Talent xi. 151 Karen was driving the tip-off car. 1960Observer 24 Jan. 5/2 There was a tip-off available about when it [sc. a bank] was going to be stacked up with cash. 1977Birds Winter 15/2 There was a tip-off about the robbery and RSPB staff lay in wait near the nest.
b. A person supplying information, esp. in connection with criminal activity. slang.
1941M. Allingham Traitor's Purse xiv. 163 The other little syndicate..must have a tip-off in the police somewhere. 1961J. Welcome Beware of Midnight xiii. 166, I don't know which of the servants here is a tip-off to the Secret Police, but one of them is. 1973R. Busby Pattern of Violence vi. 90 They've got a good tip-off man on the inside.
2. [f. tip v.1 1 a, after kick-off, etc.] Basketball. A method of (re)starting play, in which two opposing players contest a jump-ball; an instance of this.
1924[see jump-ball, jump ball s.v. jump-]. 1937F. C. Allen Better Basketball 181 On the tip-off, a player should tap the ball up and over his opponent. 1977Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Jan. 13/9 Loughborough are the visitors to Newton Aycliffe on Sunday for a 3 p.m. tip-off. |