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Definition of Tipcat
1. n. A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air.
Definition of Tipcat
1. Noun. An old game in which a small piece of wood, pointed at both ends, called a "cat", is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible. ¹
2. Noun. The wooden stick used in this game. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tipcat
1. a game resembling baseball [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tipcat
1. A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. "In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand." (Macaulay) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tipcat
Literary usage of Tipcat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... that arrangements are made for iving cat or tipcat. ily Wars ; " adopted
probably by some ... tipcat ..."
2. What to Do at Recess by George Ellsworth Johnson (1910)
"... Blind Man's Buff; Tops; tipcat. TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS (boys ten to twelve
years of age): Sixty-Yard Dash; Relay Race (four boys each to run 220 yards); ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the bells of
the parish church, playing at tipcat and reading the history of Sir Bevis of ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"The four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the belle of
the parish church, playing at tipcat, and reading the History of Sir Bevis of ..."
5. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1835)
"In the southern counties it is called tipcat; in Northumberland trippet and coit.
The following passage proves that the plough-drill is neither an English ..."
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