tippy
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"It's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top."
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
I’m curious about the psychology of people who make it to the tippy top.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
So for our mindset and how we want to go about things, it just felt right to shoot for the tippy top of the mountain, and that’s what we have an opportunity to go for.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
I think I know the precise style of water bottle you are talking about, and I hate those tippy jerks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Stretched onto my tippy toes, I peeked through the peephole.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
But that is not to say, however, that the contest for the title of tippiest tower is inconsequential.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2012
"Soft shell crabs, dear child," said Mrs. Ess Kay, "and you eat every bit, down to the tippiest end of his claw."
From Lady Betty Across the Water by Lowell, Orson
Up she went behind him, on her tippiest tiptoes, and she held the watering can above his head.
From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Wisa, Louis
“But it’s the tippiest tip, sir, as ever was,” whispered the man from behind his hand.
From Sir Hilton's Sin by Fenn, George Manville
His statue was diminnative, but his coschume supubb, for he had the tippiest Jane boots, the ivoryheadest canes, the most gawjus scarlick Jonville ties, and the most Scotch-plaidest trowseys, of any customer of that establishment.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
