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tippy

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tip·py  (tp)
adj. tip·pi·er, tip·pi·est
Likely to tip or tilt: a tippy racing shell; a tippy card table.
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Adj.1.tippy - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
boat - a small vessel for travel on water
unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"


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Is much applauded and encouraged; goes out of the room as Swills; comes in as the coroner (not the least in the world like him); describes the inquest, with recreative intervals of piano-forte accompaniment, to the refrain: With his (the coroner's) tippy tol li doll, tippy tol lo doll, tippy tol li doll, Dee!
"It doesn't seem impossible to me," said Tibby; "it is surely a very tippy plan.
 
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