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tip off
verb
give insider information or advise to
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He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot

• Syn: ↑tip
• Derivationally related forms: ↑tip (for: ↑tip), ↑tip-off
• Hypernyms: ↑rede, ↑advise, ↑counsel
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s somebody to INFINITIVE

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Sam cannot tip off Sue

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tip off
To give a tip-off to
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Main Entry: ↑tip
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tip off
To begin a game of basketball
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Main Entry: ↑tip

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ˌtip ˈoff [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they tip off he/she/it tips off present participle tipping off past tense tipped off past participle tipped off] phrasal verb
to give someone a warning or secret information about something

They were arrested after the police were tipped off.

Thesaurus: to warn someone about or against somethingsynonym
Main entry: tip

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tip off [phrasal verb]
of a basketball game : ↑start, 2

The game is scheduled to tip off at 7:00 o'clock tonight.

— see also ↑tip-off, 2
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Main Entry: ↑tip
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tip off [phrasal verb]
tip (someone) off or tip off (someone) : to give useful or secret information to (someone)

Someone tipped off the police about the robbery.

Someone tipped them off that there would be a robbery.

— see also ↑tip-off, 1
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Main Entry: ↑tip

Useful english dictionary. 2012.