tip-off (redirected from tip-offs)

tip-off ¹  (tpôf, -f)

n. Informal

1. A piece of confidential, advance, or inside information.

2. An indication of an otherwise unknown fact or probability: The judge called for a pitcher of water, a tip-off that the session would be long.

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tip-off

Noun

a warning or hint, esp. one given confidentially and based on inside information

Verb

tip off

to give a hint or warning to: the police had been tipped off about the robbery

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tip-off - inside information that something is going to happen information - knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
	2.	tip-off - the act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball tap-off jump ball - (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate basketball, basketball game, hoops - a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop

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tip-off

noun hint, word, information, warning, suggestion, clue, pointer, inside information, word of advice

Translations

tip-off [ˈtɪpɔf] n (= hint) → advertencia

tip-off [ˈtɪpɔf] n (= hint) → tuyau m

tip-off [ˈtɪpɔf] tip n → Hinweis m

tip-off [ˈtɪpɔf] n (= hint) → soffiata