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語源 1

From tip +‎ -er.

名詞

tipper (plural tippers)

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

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

2. (slang) A small moustache.
3. (UK) A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump 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 form) A 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).
   • 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:

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

同意語

• (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “gratuity”): nontipper

派生語

関連する語

• tipping

参考

• dumpcart, dumper, tumbril

語源 2

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

名詞

tipper

1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

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

アナグラム

• Trippe