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Definition of Tipcats
1. tipcat [n] - See also: tipcat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tipcats
Literary usage of Tipcats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Plays and Games by George Ellsworth Johnson (1907)
"... snowplows ; cricket bats, tipcats and clubs ; jumping standards, hurdles,
horizontal bar, springboard, stilts ; rafts, catamaran ; toy railway; sewing, ..."
2. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1901)
"... tipcats, dolls, and other things of extreme interest. These were placed in a
corner of the top floor. He regretted that they could not be more ..."
3. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1901)
"... tipcats, dolls, and other things of extreme interest. These were placed in a
corner of the top floor. He regretted that they could not be more ..."
4. Mycologia Scotia: The Fungi of Scotland and Their Geographical Distribution by John Stevenson, Cryptogamic Society of Scotland (1879)
"The shape of the spores is singular, like that of the pieces of wood with which
boys play, called tipcats ..."
5. Whist, Or Bumblepuppy? by John Petch Hewby (1895)
"From the time when Cain was short-coated, and tipcats, pea-shooters, catapults,
and other instruments of torture appeared on the scene, there have been ..."
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