TIP OFFとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

tip off (third-person singular simple present tips off, present participle tipping off, simple past and past participle tipped off)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.

   An anonymous caller tipped off the police that the suspect would be in the area.

   Someone must have tipped him off. [A likely explanation for why he has disappeared.]

2. (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
   1. (of a sports match) To begin.

      The game tips off in an hour, so hurry back!

3. (transitive, obsolete) To pour out (liquor); to tip the vessel and drink until it is empty.
4. (transitive and intransitive, painting) To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint.

同意語

• (to alert or inform someone): inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (to use a painting technique): lay off

関連する語

• tip over, tip out

参考

• tip-off (noun)

語源

Deverbal from tip off.

発音

名詞

tip-off (plural tip-offs)

1. (idiomatic) An obvious clue or indication.

   The broken window and overturned plant pots were a tip-off that something was wrong.

2. (idiomatic) A report of suspicious behaviour, especially to an authority.

   The police received a tip-off about a recent bank robbery.

   • 1986 August 16, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Harry Hay Barred from Carrying NAMBLA Sign”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 1:

     Haws also alleged that Hay was engaged in a conspiracy to disrupt the parade. "People called a week before and said he would be doing something." The alleged tip-off was anonymous.

3. (basketball) Jump ball that starts a game.

関連する語

• tip off (verb)

Further reading

• “tip-off”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “tip-off”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “tip-off”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tip-off”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.