tippy
adjective
tip·py
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tippier;
tippiest
Definition of tippy
: liable to tip
a tippy boat
Examples of tippy in a Sentence
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Thereâs a lot of competition and not many open slots at the tippy-top of the food chain Walsh has been traversing. — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, "Joe Walsh Is Running for âMorning Joeâ," 29 Aug. 2019 Democratsâ tax policy is only slightly less prohibitive: Tax increases are allowed, but only on a tiny sliver at the tippy-top of the income distribution. — Jared Bernstein, Vox, "We canât fund the progressive agenda by taxing the 1% alone," 2 Aug. 2019 In the fifth inning, Davis required getting on his tippy toes to snare a throw from Bregman. — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, "Bad throws test Astros first baseman J.D. Davis," 5 Apr. 2018 The Best of the Best: Sonicare DiamondClean Smart Sonic The DiamondClean Smart is way up at the tippy top of Sonicare's electric toothbrush lineup. — Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, "The Quest for the Best Electric Toothbrush," 13 Nov. 2017 Come up to your tippy toes and squeeze your butt at full extension to complete one rep. — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, "4 Exercises to Do When You Haven't Worked Out in Forever," 15 Jan. 2016 The top ten does not hold any big surprises, given the way finance and technology have been minting wealth of late: Harvard sits at the tippy top, followed by Penn, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, and MIT. — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, "Harvard Doesn't Suck," 26 Sep. 2014 What makes this prospect of diagnostic inflation so unsettling is that, from some distance, the development looks like a service to those in pain, a panacea from the tippy top of the system. — John Ericson, Newsweek, "'A Pill for Every Ill'," 6 Feb. 2014 Democratsâ tax policy is only slightly less prohibitive: Tax increases are allowed, but only on a tiny sliver at the tippy-top of the income distribution. — Jared Bernstein, Vox, "We canât fund the progressive agenda by taxing the 1% alone," 2 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tippy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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