Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TIPTOE

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Definitions of TIPTOE

1. Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
2. Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
3. (usually, in the plural) The tip of the toe.
4. To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. [from late 14th C.]

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Examples of Using TIPTOE in a Sentence

• He felt that he was stretched somewhere between the two, with "one tiptoe in champage and caviar, and the other in the dirt of his Dreamtime".
• One obituary described Wyngarde as playing the role "in the manner of a cat walking on tiptoe, with an air of self-satisfaction", but that increasingly his acting became more mannered and he came to believe his own publicity.
• But tonight, sam pan Bombay Bermuda in diphtheria rustic McAlpine splendour, rabbit and foot-foot-phooey jugs rapidly big biro ruveliners musk-green gauges micturate with nipples and tiptoe rusting machinery, rustically inclined.
• British thriller author James Follett also used Scripsit, running on a TRS-80 Model I, to write The Tiptoe Boys, which was filmed as Who Dares Wins.
• Gold Diggers of Broadway became a box office sensation, making Winnie Lightner a worldwide star and boosting guitarist crooner Nick Lucas to further fame as he sang two songs that became 20th-century standards: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine".
• Together and under the name The Sweetshop, Wirtz and Hannaman recorded the song "Barefoot and Tiptoe", as part of his unfinished recording A Teenage Opera.
• Tiptoe (tiptoes or tippy toes) describes the human body posture and locomotion of removing the heel(s) of one or both feet from the ground.
• Then along comes the sage, huffing and puffing after benevolence, reaching on tiptoe for righteousness, and the world for the first time has doubts; mooning and mouthing over his music, snipping and stitching away at his rites, and the world for the first time is divided.
• Divers were sent out to assess damage, and after finding none, Tiptoe was refloated on the evening tide and pulled off the shore by two tugboats.
• Girling was diagnosed with cancer of the womb and died at Tiptoe, Hordle, on 18 September 1886 (aged 59), and was buried in Hordle churchyard 22 September.
• “Hit & Miss” is so slow and earnest and teachy — several scenes involve Mia's young son exploring his own sexual and gender identity by donning a dress and headband — that much of the show seems to be performed on tiptoe, and a giggle seems like the appropriate response.
• Disc 5 (Season Five): "Long Lost Crown Affair", "By George, It's a Dragon!", "Tiptoe Through the Penfolds", "Project Moon", "The Next Ice Age Begins at Midnight!", "The Aliens are Coming!", "Remote-Controlled Chaos", "The Man from Gadget", "Tampering with Time Tickles", "Nero Power".
• Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow released the single "Tip Toe" produced by Great John, using a sample of Tiny Tim's version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips".
• Ortabee and the Wurlitzer cinema organ rise from the pit as he plays "Tiptoe through the tulips" against projected images of brownshirt Nazis and of Dolly glamorously descending the staircase, Ziegfeld Follies style.

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