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tip-off
[ tip-awf, -of ]
noun
- the act of tipping off.
- a hint or warning:
They got a tip-off on the raid.
tip-off
noun
- a warning or hint, esp given confidentially and based on inside information
- basketball the act or an instance of putting the ball in play by a jump ball
verb
- tr, adverb to give a hint or warning to
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tip-off1
Idioms and Phrases
Supply with secret or private information; also, warn or alert. For example, The broker often tipped her off about stocks about to go down in price , or Somehow they were tipped off and left the country before the police could catch them . [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
Another tip-off suggested that an inmate serving a life sentence would kill Yaxley-Lennon if they were ever placed on the same wing.
Yet police refrained from telling the public that they believed the plot was fake "out of an abundance of caution", as they continued to receive tip-offs about other related terror plots.
It had earlier received a tip-off from local police about a "suicidal individual who may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana", it said.
The Hisbah official added that they sometimes get tip-offs when people are seen eating.
At the end of a long, emotional week, USC’s men’s basketball staff emerged one by one from the Galen Center tunnel just before tip-off Tuesday, relieved as ever to be back home.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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