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单词 tip-it
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tip-itn.

Forms: Also dialect tippet, tippit, tipput, tibbets.
Etymology: < the phrase tip it = give or hand it out.
A game of chance, played by two parties of two or three a side; in one of the hands on one side a button or the like is hidden, and a player on the opposite side has to guess in which hand it is, touching the hand and saying tip it. (When played for money or drinks it is reckoned a form of gambling.)
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1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iv. vi A lively..pastime known as ‘Tibbets’, which consisted in passing a paperweight from hand to hand under a table-cover, and guessing at a given moment in whose hand it was concealed.
1897 B'ham Daily Gaz. 28 Aug. (E.D.D.) Playing tip it for drinks.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 8 May 7/3 The offence..was that a servant allowed some miners to play at the game of tippit for beer.
1908 Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 5/6 The skill of members at such games as tippit, darts, rings, and dominoes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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