Crossword clues for tipper
tipper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tipper \Tip"per\, n. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who tips, someone who gives a tip. 2 A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. 3 (context slang English) A small moustache. 4 A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
WordNet
n. a person who leaves a tip; "a generous tipper"
truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity [syn: dump truck, dumper, tipper truck, tipper lorry, tip truck]
Wikipedia
Tipper can mean:
- David Tipper, British composer and producer specializing in electronic music
- Tipper, a beater for the bodhrán or gaelic drum
- Tipper, a dump truck
- Tipper, County Kildare, a civil parish in County Kildare, Ireland
- Tipper Gore, author, photographer, former second lady of the United States, and the estranged wife of Al Gore
- Tom Tipper,a postman in the Railway series by the Rev.W.Awdry and the spin-off series Thomas and Friends.
Usage examples of "tipper".
For example, after the school shootings a few years ago, Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore pulled together a mental health conference sponsored by the White House.
Could you imagine if Al Gore and Tipper were in charge of America today?
Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, asked Tipper Gore how many of the records released every year she would put into the objectionable category, Tipper said five percent.
I had met Al and his wife, Tipper, at political events during the 1980s, but neither Bill nor I knew them well.
Bill, Al, Tipper and I spent hours talking, eating, waving out the window and stopping the bus convoy to conduct impromptu rallies.
Al and Tipper and toured Mon-ticello, the great house Jefferson designed.
I called Tipper Gore and asked her if she thought we should bring in counselors to educate the staff about depression.
The next morning, while Al Gore met with de Klerk and his ministers, Tipper and I had breakfast with Mrs.
June, I gave a radio address to increase awareness of mental-health issues with Tipper Gore, whom I had named my official advisor for mental health and who recently had courageously revealed her own treatment for depression.
Two days later, Hillary and I joined Al and Tipper for a White House Conference on Mental Health, in which we dealt with the staggering personal, economic, and social costs of untreated mental illness.
His wife, Tipper, however, was unforgiving of Clinton, and Gore said he kept hearing about it at home.
The tipper followed belatedly, cutting across the track of a bus with a suicidal verve as the lights were changing to red.
He was a rather dear old fellow, and a good tipper, even if he had told her once that she reminded him of one of his favorite daughters, the nasty old bugger.
He is cleverer than the ordinary gypsy palm-reader, astrologer, or table tipper, and to the same extent more dangerous.
The British whores said he was grossly average in size but uncommonly vigorous in applicationand a fine tipper, which appealed to their commercial sensibilities.