tipper

Meanings

Plural: tippers

Noun

• a person who leaves a tip
  • "a generous tipper"
• truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity
• Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
• A small moustache.
• A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
• A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
• One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
• A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
• A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
• A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.

Synonyms

dump truck, dumper, dumper truck, tip truck, tipper lorry, tipper truck

Antonyms

nontipper

Related Words

dumpcart, dumper, tipping, tumbril