tipper

Meaning

Noun

• Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
• 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.
• A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of stock animals; a horn tipper.
• A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.

Related

Similar words

• dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

Origin

• tip + -er
• So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.