Definition of Tip-off

1. Noun. Inside information that something is going to happen.

Generic synonyms: Information
Derivative terms: Tip Off

2. Noun. The act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball.
Exact synonyms: Tap-off
Generic synonyms: Jump Ball
Group relationships: Basketball, Basketball Game, Hoops

Definition of Tip-off

1. Noun. (idiomatic) An obvious clue or indication. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) A report of suspicious behaviour, especially to an authority. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tip-off

tinware
tinwares
tinwork
tinworks
tiny
tinygram
tinygrams
tinyness
tinzenite
tioconazole
tioguanine
tiospirone
tiotropium
tip
tip-and-run
tip-off (current term)
tip-offs
tip-tilted
tip-top
tip-top table
tip-up
tip credit
tip credits
tip in
tip of auricle
tip of elbow
tip of nose
tip of posterior horn
tip of the hat
tip of the iceberg

Literary usage of Tip-off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Basket Ball by Edwin J. Mather, Elmer Dayton Mitchell (1922)
"CENTER DEFENSE WHEN NOT SECURING THE tip-off When a team's center is being ... Every man stick to his own man on the tip-off, the so-called man-toman style. ..."

2. What Disaster Response Management Can Learn from Chaos Theory: Conference edited by Gus A. Koehler (1997)
"Look to figure 4 and imagine how things may have turned out differently if the tip-off had not occurred. Without the tip-off another totally different set ..."

3. Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since: A Poem by George Hooker Colton (1842)
"So tip off the rosy, my boys, Each to the lass he loves best; Let our souls be free as the chainless sea, Our hearts like the rocks in its breast! ..."

4. Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women by Helen Frost, Charles Digby Wardlaw (1920)
"Their positions are played according to the tip-off in centre. THROUGH SIGNALS Through signals to the forwards should never be used until a team is capable ..."

5. Mass Physical Training for Use in the Army and the Reserve Officers by Joseph Edward Raycroft (1920)
"SIGNAL PLAYS FROM CENTER WHEN YOUR CENTER IS GETTING THE tip-off The basket-ball team should have a few plays from center. Three or four are usually enough. ..."

6. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To tip off the liquor, is—to turn up the top or edge of the vessel till all is out (see To TIPPLE, and TIFF) ; to tip over,— to turn tip or top over ..."

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