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Tip-off

Definitions: Tip-off

Tip-off

Noun

1. Inside information that something is going to happen.

2. The act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Tip-off

Synonym: tap-off (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Tip-off

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hopefully that'll be sometime before tip-off. (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo)

Movie/TV Titles

Tip-Off Girls (1938)

The Tip-Off (1931)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tip-off

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tip-off

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Such an unusual infection may be the tip-off to an immunodeficiency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tip-off

"Tip-off" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Tip-off" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)96.97%6442,009
Noun (singular)3.03%2245,945
                    Total100.00%66N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tip-off

Language Translations for "tip-off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

подшушвам (give smb. a tip-off, hint, tip, whisper). (various references)

   

French

  

donner un tuyau (give a tip-off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tipp (dope, pointer, tip, wrinkle), figyelmeztetés (admonishment, admonition, caution, caveat, cue, exhortation, expostulation, notice, notification, reminder, remonstrance, tip off, warning), figyelmeztető jel. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(secret information). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ないほう (comprehension, connotation, inside, secret information, your wife). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

기울이십시" 떨어 . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ip-offtay

   

Thai

  

การเตือน, การบอกเรื่องส่วนตัว. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự mách nước lời mách nước. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Tip-off

Misspellings

"Tip-off" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tipoff, Tiptoft. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tip-off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tipoff.

Words within the letters "f-f-i-o-p-t"

-2 letters: pfft, tiff, toff, topi.

-3 letters: fit, fop, iff, off, oft, opt, pit, poi, pot, tip, top.

-4 letters: if, it, of, op, pi, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-i-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: pontiff, tipoffs.

 

+2 letters: offprint, pontiffs.

 

+3 letters: offprints.

 

+4 letters: offprinted.

 

+5 letters: offprinting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tip-off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 69 70 2D 6F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101001 01110000 00101101 01101111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#105 &#112 &#45 &#111 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0069 0070 002D 006F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54758215817272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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