| 词组 | tip |
| 释义 | tip [tipped, tipped, tipping] tip down it's tipping down BrE spoken informal used to say that it is raining very hard: ▪ It's been tipping down all morning. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pour down, ↑bucket down tip off tip off sb • tip sb off to secretly tell or warn someone about something, especially the police, the authorities, or news reporters: ▪ The drug dealers were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents. + about ▪ Someone must have tipped off the press about Madonna's visit. tip-off n C a secret warning or message about something that is happening: ▪ Acting on an anonymous tip-off, police raided the house. tip over tip over • tip over sth • tip sth over if an object tips over, or if you tip it over, it falls on its side: ▪ Bud was so mad he tipped his chair over. ▪ I knocked the milk jug and it tipped over onto the table. ▪ The boat tipped over and they were all thrown into the sea. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑knock over, overturn tip up 1. tip up sth • tip sth up if you tip up a container, you move it so that its contents start to pour out: ▪ She tipped up her glass and finished the beer. ▪ Stevens tipped up the wheelbarrow and emptied all the rocks out onto the ground. 2. tip up • tip up sth • tip sth up if an object tips up, or if you tip it up, one end goes down and the other end goes up, for example because something heavy has been put on one end of it: ▪ A fat man sat down at one end of the bench, and the whole thing tipped up. ▪ They had to tip the table up to get it through the door. |
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