noun

• (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
  "chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips"

verb

• (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
  "I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...]."

verb

• (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
• (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
  "the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]"
• (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• (transitive) To dump (refuse).

noun

• (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
  "There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly."
• (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.