tips
Ends or advice
Tips are pointed ends or summits—the tip of a finger, the tip of an iceberg.
More commonly in everyday speech, tips are small sums of money given for service: She left a generous tip for the waiter.
Tips also means pieces of advice or inside information: stock tips, betting tips, helpful tips for new parents.
As a verb, tips means tilts or overturns: The canoe tips easily, He tips his hat in greeting.
Proposed ideas or advice
- recommendationsProposed courses of action
- guidanceAdvice for decisions
- counselExpert guidance offered
- pointersIndicators that guide
hints · tricks · hacks · wisdom · insight · strategies · techniques · how-to
Fee for being served
- waitstaffRestaurant service employees
- bartenderOne who serves drinks
- serverOne who attends tables
- bellhopHotel luggage attendant
valet · hairdresser · percentage · generosity · appreciation · customary · overtipping · undertipping
suggestions
Proposed ideas or advice
- recommendationsProposed courses of action
- guidanceAdvice for decisions
- counselExpert guidance offered
pointers · hints · tricks · hacks · wisdom · insight · strategies · techniques · how-to · shortcuts
service charge
Fee for being served
bellhop · valet · hairdresser · percentage · generosity · appreciation · customary · overtipping · undertipping · service industry
tilt
Angular deviation from level
topple · capsize · upend · overturn · list · pitch · cant · wobble · unbalanced · precarious
point
Exact location or meaning
extremity · nib · spike · prong · vertex · top · cap · pinnacle · summit · spire
- expensesexpenses, expense, expenditure, cost, costs
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- print mediaheadline, magazine, articles, news, byline
- rubbernatural rubber, rubber band, rubber trees, rubber boot, rubber glove
- adviceadvice, advise, counsel, guidance, suggestions
- barbartender, bartending, mixologist, mixology, bar stool
tipsconceals
Keeps from being seen
hides · withholds · secrets · suppresses · obscures
tipsbase pay
Compensation before additions
wages · salary · hourly wage · hourly rate · fixed income
- tip overFall sideways from standing
- tip of the tongueVerge of recollection
- tip of the icebergVisible portion suggesting hidden mass
- tipping pointThreshold triggering major change
- tip offSecretly inform beforehand
- on tiptoeWalking on ball-feet
tip, tiptoe, tipsy, tipped, tiptoed, tipping, tiptoes, tip-top, tiptoeing