tipper

plural tippers

1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.

   The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.

2. slangA small moustache.
3. UKA goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.

   Synonyms: dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
6. also in plural formA cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).

   The staff discharging the coal from the wagons is known as teemers or tippers; they are employed by the dock-owners.

   1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11

1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.

   a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper

   1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

plural Tippers

1. A surname from Middle English.