tippex

present singular third person tippexes · participle present tippexing · participle past tippexed · past tippexed

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tippex.

   If the employer knows you are sick, he can arrange things at work so that the job can go on. First tippex out the wife's name, then write in my name.

   2004, Rights at Work, →ISBN, page 73

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Tippex.

   How do you stand that hospital smell? I'm sure they pump it in just to annoy the visitors. It's like tippex.

   1998, Sally Goldsworthy, Young Blood, page 286

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   Since the 1986 Social Security Act reached the statute-book, MPs have been called upon to apply 'legislative tippex' (as Frank Dobson put it) through two Bills which corrected errors relating to...

   1989, A. W. Dilnot, Ian Walker, The Economics of social security, page 211

   My staff noted that the relevant officials balanced the revenue cash-book at the end of the month in pencil and also made use of tippex.

   1998, Report of the Auditor General on the Accounts of the Government of Namibia for the Financial Year Ended 31 March 1998

   The copy I have emphasizes that "done" ("so" or "then," in the passage from "Mordant Fleas" quoted above) by dint of tippex (white-out fluid) where the "c" should be.

   2003, Tom Raworth, Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, page 179

   Just as word-processing made it much easier for individuals to edit their work (who can remember the days, not so long past, of typewriters and tippex?), now programs found on most computers (such as Microsoft Word) enable users to generate texts that combine words and images – and without much more expertise to include animation and sound.

   2005 -, Anne Cranny-Francis, MultiMedia: Texts and Contexts, →ISBN, page 6

alternative Tipp-Ex · alternative tippex

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKuncountableA particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.

   Overlap between chapters is a difficult issue and while we have exercised the editorial Tippex to the best of our ability, some duplication remains.

   2010, David Ames, Alistair Burns, John T. O'Brien, Dementia, 4th Edition, →ISBN, page xxiii

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   If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person...

   1996, Tamara Goriely, Tom Williams, The Impact of the New Training Scheme: Report on a Qualitative Study

   Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast.

   1996, Pat Ingoldsby, Laugh without prejudice, →ISBN, page 164

   And all without a safety net, second take, a stroke of Tippex, an editor or producer who knows all the knobs to press, and when, to keep one's shortcomings from wider exposure.

   2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport, →ISBN, page 238

2. CommonwealthIrelandUKuncountableA particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.

present singular third person Tippexes · participle present Tippexing · participle past Tippexed · past Tippexed · alternative Tipp-Ex · alternative tippex

1. transitiveTo delete using correction fluid.

   I also Tippexed out the swear-words that I'd scrawled over the Tippexed-out November gigs.

   2011, Andy Kind, Stand Up and Deliver: A Nervous Rookie on the Comedy Circuit, →ISBN

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   Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.”

   2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, →ISBN, page 95

   Then, literally out of the blue, it appears as though someone has Tippexed a freehand circle on the surface of the water and splashed a little bleach and blue curaçao within the outline.

   2005, Belinda Jones, The Paradise Room, →ISBN, page 59

   Synonyms: white out