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Tip-off   /tɪp-ɔf/   Listen
Tip-off

noun
1.
Inside information that something is going to happen.
2.
The act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball.  Synonym: tap-off.






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"Tip-off" Quotes from Famous Books



... the chance to come to Hamilton with Mrs. Dunlap, she jumped at it, and she and Sprague sprung their racket, whatever it was, either just before or just after Nita left New York. Probably it was Nita's tip-off and Sprague did the actual dirty work himself, which explains that telegram that Nita sent him April 24, just three days after she got to Hamilton. Let's see again just what it says," and Strawn reached for a copy of the night letter which Dundee himself ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin



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