Crossword clues for tiptoe
tiptoe
- Sneak around
- "___ through the tulips"
- Walk very quietly
- Step lightly
- Go stealthily
- Advance stealthily
- What burglars may walk on
- Walk, in a way
- Walk on eggshells, e.g
- Walk furtively
- Sneak by
- Move through tulips?
- Move extra cautiously
- Creep, perhaps
- What ballerinas dance on
- Walk on eggshells
- Try to avoid detection, in a way
- Try not to clomp
- Tread surreptitiously
- Tread lightly
- Transverse, as through tulips
- Step for Tiny Tim?
- Sneakers often do it
- Sneak about
- Move like Tiny Tim?
- Ballerinas dance on it
- Avoid detection, in a way
- Act like a creep?
- A way of walking
- "He who stands on __ is not steady": Lao-Tzu
- "--- Through the Tulips"
- Silently forward: hint to European
- Move stealthily, in a way
- Walk quietly, as through tulips?
- Move quietly
- Walk softly
- Move with stealth
- Sneak, in a way
- Walk very, very quietly
- Proceed quietly
- Go quietly
- The tip of a toe
- Walk through tulips
- Walk stealthily
- Start of Tiny Tim's theme song
- Tiny Tim's invitation
- Walk cautiously
- Proceed carefully
- Walk quietly or cautiously
- Move through the tulips
- Pussyfoot
- Not go boldly
- Walk on the balls of the feet
- Walk carefully
- Advice given to middlemen - move quietly
- Advice to leader of expedition — proceed with caution
- Move cautiously
- Move sneakily
- Go gently
- Proceed cautiously
- Walk lightly
- Be stealthy
- Walk gingerly
- Proceed warily
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe.
Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. Tiptoes. The end, or tip, of the toe.
He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes].
--Chaucer.
Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.
--Spenser.
To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.
Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, a.
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Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
--Shak.Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory.
--Byron. -
Noiseless; stealthy. ``With tiptoe step.''
--Cowper.Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth.
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. 2 Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. n. (label en usually plural) The tips of one's toes collectively. v
To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. (from late 14th
)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tiptoe (tiptoes or tippy toes) describes the human body posture and locomotion of removing the heel(s) of one or both feet from the ground. It is quite often used as a slang when the weight is placed on the balls of the feet, rather than literally the tips of the toes (which is very difficult), although it could still be used in that case (as in ballet).
"Tiptoe" is a song written and recorded by American indie rock band Imagine Dragons, for their debut studio album Night Visions. The song appears as the second track on the album. Bubbling under the Billboard Hot 100 at #13, it has also peaked at #34 on the Billboard Rock songs chart. The song was performed by the group at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. The theme of the song deals with the speaker's victory over something momentous, despite his not being noticed or recognized by others.
Tiptoe (also tiptoes or tippy toes) is the body posture of standing on one's toes.
Tiptoe, tiptoes, or tippy toes may refer to:
Arts and entertainment:
- Tip-Toes, a 1925 musical by the Gershwins and others
- Tip Toes, a 1927 British silent film comedy-drama starring Dorothy Gish and Will Rogers
- Tiptoes, a 2003 film featuring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale, Patricia Arquette, and Gary Oldman
- "Tippy Toe", a 2004 song by Utada on her debut English-language album, Exodus (Hikaru Utada album)
- "Tiptoe", a song on the 2001 album Paradise (Joy and the Boy album) by Joy and the Boy
- Tiptoe (song)
- the title character of The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, a children's book by Beatrix Potter
- The Tiptoes, an Austrian rock band
Places:
- Tip Toe Falls (or Tiptoe Falls), a small waterfall in Portola Redwoods State Park, California, USA
- Tiptoe, Hampshire, a village in the New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England
Other uses:
-
, a British Royal Navy submarine launched in 1944
Usage examples of "tiptoe".
Out front on the green cement lawn a tiptoed Cupid, wings aflutter, squirted from pouty lips an eternal stream of blue-colored water into a marble pool deep in good-luck coins and casino chips.
As for the attendees, those brave 268 of the Worldcon Pleistocene who tiptoed past the cornflakes, they included a good many whose names are still familiar today.
Margaret, he beckoned to Cameron, who bent, while Boshy, tiptoeing, whispered in his ear.
She was in a complete state of negligee, and came in on tiptoe, though if she chose to look towards the bed she might have seen that I was wide awake.
Junia to remain quiet and keep the dalf with her, Jerry softly stepped upon the deck, and tiptoeing to the cabin door, crouched there, listening.
With a whispered warning to Junia to remain quiet and keep the dalf with her, Jerry softly stepped upon the deck, and tiptoeing to the cabin door, crouched there, listening.
Duane and Doty occasionally tiptoed in to glance inquiry at the fanning attendant, and then tiptoed out.
The unexpected, lurid death of Lannes-- Rigid as iron, reaped down like a straw-- Tiptoed Assassination haunting round In unthought thoroughfares, the near success Of Staps the madman, argue to forbid The riskful blood of my previsioned line And potence for dynastic empery To linger vialled in my veins alone.
I worked my way down the hall, tiptoed down a wide stairway, and crossed to the door of the room where Elren and I had done our business.
This crying on of the hound was called forth by a chase up the street, in which the Goshawk beheld Farina pursue and capture a stalwart runaway, who refused with all his might to be brought back, striving every two and three of his tiptoe steps to turn against the impulse Farina had got on his neck and nether garments.
Captain Flume was obsessed with the idea that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night when he was sound asleep and slit his throat open for him from ear to ear.
Captain Flume had obtained this idea from Chief White Halfoat himself, who did tiptoe up to his cot one night as he was dozing off, to hiss portentously that one night when he, Captain Flume, was sound asleep he, Chief White Halfoat, was going to slit his throat open for him from ear to ear.
Captain Flume grew to hate him and began wishing that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night and slit his throat open for him from ear to ear.
By pushing his ear forward, this way and that, tiptoeing around the room, Noel Gouf could pick them up.
I happened to be writing at the time, and as she had come up on tiptoe I was surprised, though in a very agreeable manner.