¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtip
1. to tip more than what is customary [v -TIPPED, -TIPPING, -TIPS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtip
Literary usage of Overtip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States Secret Service by La Fayette Curry Baker (1867)
"A shock, a shout, a gathering up of his splendid figure, as if to overtip the
stature God gave him, and John Wilkes Booth ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1897)
"... dark fuscous at the ends, or rather dark fuscous hairs growing behind the
white ones overtip them and produce the effect described ; ridge beneath first ..."
3. Panama Adventure Guide by Patricia Katzman (2004)
"... or overtip for services. Bargaining is okay and sometimes expected in a big
city electronics store, but when an artisan has worked days or weeks to ..."
4. Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American Or English Jurisprudence by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (1879)
"Tbe words were also used in royal charu-rs and patents to indicate that the grai/.
was of the free will of the «overtip.. and not under any claim of right. ..."
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