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- noun Alternative spelling of
tip-off .
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Examples
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"No buck would tolerate another buck's antler gouging his eye, and the other tipoff is the eye-antler still has velvet growing on it, suggesting the buck had grown it himself."
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The tipoff is obvious: NL teams struggle vs. the power of the AL.
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And the tipoff is the fact that there was a video camera involved.
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After two years of speculation over where LeBron James ultimately would take his talents, it's difficult to recall a tipoff to an NBA season more anticipated than this one.
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He was just getting warmed up — 2 hours before tipoff — and his regular routine provided another demonstration of greatness.
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Belhaj was detained in Bangkok along with his pregnant wife after an MI6 tipoff and was allegedly tortured by American agents for several days before being flown to Tripoli, where he says he was tortured and detained for several years.
Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims 2012
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Now, Gloria Allred is alleging and claiming that they will produce today a mismatch letter from the Social Security Administration indicating that her employee was working on an incorrect number, a wrong number, which is usually a tipoff for undocumented status.
Calif. Gubernatorial Hopeful Meg Whitman Faces Immigrant Dustup 2010
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Assuming Shaquille O'Neal calf is back in the lineup as planned, the average age of the Celtics' starters come tipoff versus the New York Knicks will be 33 years, 250 days.
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Going back and looking at it again will I realize, "Ah, that's the tipoff?"
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Horror Cinema Master John Carpenter Returns To Form With The Ward Brad Balfour 2011
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Going back and looking at it again will I realize, "Ah, that's the tipoff?"
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Horror Cinema Master John Carpenter Returns To Form With The Ward Brad Balfour 2011
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