tipper
(noun) a person who leaves a tip; “a generous tipper”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tipper (plural tippers)
Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
(slang) A small moustache.
A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
(also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of stock animals; a horn tipper.
• (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck
So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
tipper
A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
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Source: Wiktionary
Tip"per, n.
Definition: A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2024
(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; “a parade of strollers on the mall”; “a parade of witnesses”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
