tip your hat

tip (one's) hat

1. Literally, to raise or tilt the brim of one's hat as a salutation, greeting, or mark of respect. It would be nice to live in a time when folks would tip their hats to you when you entered a room. When her father tipped his hat to me, I knew that he had come to accept me as part of the family.
2. To give one credit or praise for something. I really have to tip my hat to everyone who volunteered and made this such a success.
See also: hat, tip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tip your hat (or cap)

raise or touch your hat or cap as a way of greeting or acknowledging someone.
See also: hat, tip
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • tip (one's) hat
  • Greetings and salutations
  • Salutation
  • (it's) nice to see you
  • Shabbat shalom
  • well met
  • eye candy
  • How are you going?
  • felicitation
  • Greetings and felicitations
References in periodicals archive
Tip your hat and raise your glass to the 2018 Mad Hatter Mayhem Pub Crawl.
Cheers to a great cause
But you have to tip your hat and say what an exceptional organisation Melbourne have become.
Showcase our stars.. and stripes
TIP your hat to this tipped collar Western shirt dress, PS45, Oasis.
Cowgirl chic; TIME to lasso yourself some good old western clobber as MARIE TURBILL rounds up this season's cowgirl fashion
FOR sheer dedication you have to tip your hat to Wolverhampton Wanderers' press officer John 'Foz' Hendley, who completed his 900th successive game for the club on Saturday.
It's 900-up for Foz the fanatic
Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, if you love wildlife you have to tip your hat to Gov.
Efforts to be cheered
So, when Church takes the field, tip your hat and remember Van Slyke in center field being sandwiched in-between Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla.
Ryan Church to Wear Andy Van Slyke's #18 with Pirates
In some respects, all you could do last week was tip your hat to a first-rate opponent playing at the top of its game.
TOUCHDOWNS
And in a world of hat tippers, it's very difficult to make friends when you cannot tip your hat back at a new acquaintance simply because you can't find your very small hat on your very large head!
The Day It All Blew Away
So when Tony sits down to talk hitting, you have to tip your hat to him.
Next turn at bat ..
"If you don't tip your hat to him, you're going to be accused of being totally derivative.
`BENEATH' RISES UP
Tip your hat to Seattle history when you visit this 45-acre park honoring Spanish-American War volunteers.
Puget's Perfect Paths
You also have to tip your hat to Ards and Dungannon.
BAXTER: WE RELISH GAMES LIKE THIS
"I think sometimes you have to tip your hat to the other team," Holy Cross coach Bill Gibbons said after the loss.
13 Navy treys bury Cross
TIP your hat to my fellow Mirror columnist Robbie Savage, emergency keeper for Derby against Reading on Wednesday.
Sav labour of glove; RESULT!