tipper

Meaning

1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
2. (slang) A small moustache.
3. (UK) A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
6. A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).

Synonyms

dump truck

tip truck

tipper lorry

dump-truck

dump-body truck

tipper truck

dumper

dump car

tilting mechanism

tripping mechanism

tilting gear

bender

mototilter

dump device

dumper truck

tilter

tippler

tripper

tumbler

Translations

vagoncino ribaltabile

tombador

Lore

tombereau

Kippwagen

ανατρεπόμενο

κλίνων

φιλοδορών

benne

motobasculeur

camion benne

Tombereau

camion ribaltabile

autocarro ribaltabile

autocarro con cassone ribaltabile

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɪpɚ/

Etymology

From tip + -er.