Tipping

//ˈtɪpɪŋ//

"Tipping" in a Sentence (12 examples)

When you go abroad, you'd better keep in mind that tipping is customary.

This tipping business always makes us uneasy.

You'd better remember that tipping is necessary in the USA.

This wasn't here this morning ... looks like somebody's been fly tipping.

You should greet your betters by tipping your hat.

His patience reached its tipping point.

Tom tried to keep the canoe from tipping over.

Tom was barely able to keep the canoe from tipping over.

Tipping isn't usually done here.

Layla reached a tipping point.

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Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.

Cats fan Mr Burke received a handsome trophy from Balmoral Grove for his feat but is no stranger to cleaning up, having won the tipping at The Break three years in a row and also done well at The National Hotel.

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