tippy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tippy
Example Sentences
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"It's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top."
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
I’m curious about the psychology of people who make it to the tippy top.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Perhaps there’s another trade to be made to get another signal caller, but if Lock is the man behind center, the Seahawks can bump their heads on their ceiling by standing on their tippy toes.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
I think I know the precise style of water bottle you are talking about, and I hate those tippy jerks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Stretched onto my tippy toes, I peeked through the peephole.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
But that is not to say, however, that the contest for the title of tippiest tower is inconsequential.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2012
“But it’s the tippiest tip, sir, as ever was,” whispered the man from behind his hand.
From Sir Hilton's Sin by Fenn, George Manville
His statue was diminnative, but his coschume supubb, for he had the tippiest Jane boots, the ivoryheadest canes, the most gawjus scarlick Jonville ties, and the most Scotch-plaidest trowseys, of any customer of that establishment.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Up she went behind him, on her tippiest tiptoes, and she held the watering can above his head.
From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Wisa, Louis
"Soft shell crabs, dear child," said Mrs. Ess Kay, "and you eat every bit, down to the tippiest end of his claw."
From Lady Betty Across the Water by Lowell, Orson
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