footy tipping

noun

A competition where entrants aim to predict the winners of football matches over the course of the season.

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Meanings

nounfooty tipping (uncountable)
  1. AustraliauncountableA competition where entrants aim to predict the winners of football matches over the course of the season.

    They chatted about the rescue, how mutual acquaintances in the community were faring and the footy tipping before Shorten was interrupted by a couple full of praise.

    2016 May 9, Adam Morton, “Election 2016: Bill Shorten, man-of-the-workers, returns to Beaconsfield”, in The Age
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    Chris has won the footy tipping at his nursing home two years in a row by blinking his selections and is now eating lunch after his parents were told he would never eat solid food again.

    2012 November 2, Fiona Henderson, “Ballarat's OAM Mary Nolan is fighting for change”, in The Courier

Origin

Compound of footy + tipping.

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APA

footy tipping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footy%20tipping

MLA

“footy tipping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footy%20tipping. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “footy tipping,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footy%20tipping.

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