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
“We’ve got to be on our tippy toes at all times, very aware of what’s going on around us, because it takes a second for someone to slide out,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Sears said some cats will be stranded at the very tippy top of a conifer, like a star on a Christmas tree.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
It was a tippy boat even for a souvenir.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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
