tippy /ˈtɪpi/adjective 4noun 2forms 3 adjective4 •(US, Canada) Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable. •(informal, slang) Clever, neat, smart.She read Renan's Vie de Jésus, and I am now going to lend her the antidote—a tippy little bit of criticism by Pressensé. — 1863 •Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds. •(slang, no longer used) Fashionable, tip-top.Of all the gay beaux, / That sport their smart cloathes, / There's none that my fancy can please, / With their Spencers or Crops, / Or woolly Foretops, / Like Bob with his Tippy Bootees. — 1806 noun2 •(slang, no longer used) A dandy.Is his dress, as we may presume it will be, elegant; exhibiting no articles of apparel but such as are “All the rage?” he is “Quite the tippy.” — 1798 •(slang, no longer used) Something at the height of fashion, excellent, cool.Rent! you boor!—That, for Sir Hubert!—[Snapping his Fingers.] Ah! Nabob's servants be the tippy—Every thing be done by them so genteely. — 1808 formstippies · tippier · tippiest
