tip up

verb

To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.

Meanings

verbtip up (third-person singular simple present tips up, present participle tipping up, simple past and past participle tipped up)

present singular third person tips up · participle present tipping up · participle past tipped up · past tipped up

  1. To tilt something upward in order to discharge its contents.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tip up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tip%20up.

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