(Used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.
1 There isn't a New Englander on the payroll, even at the tippy top.
2 Barry suddenly found himself another inch higher up on his tippy - toes .
3 They parked themselves on Isabel's sofa with their laptops and began tippy - tapping away.
4 His selfimportant partner was tippy at the best of times.
5 He'd tippy - toed out at the crack of dawn, and he'd left Bob with me.
6 An egg balanced on a broom on top of a flea's tippy top hair!
7 I walked around the side of the house and stood on tippy toes, looking in.
8 Toddlers with the mental capacity to form complex escape plans using blocks and tippy cups.
9 Standing on her tippy - toes and raising her eyebrows, the pink-haired, 20-year-old Australian wears quirky well.
10 He could only reach up to my stomach, even standing on his tippy - toes and stretching.
11 A quick jerk brought Barry up on his tippy - toes .
12 Once again they tippy - tapped up the concrete stairs and made their way unsteadily to their room.
13 That was how Tommy described himself: tippy , but enthusiastic-whenhe wasn't Dipsy-Down ,ashe called it.
14 At her command I crawled into the tight tube and up and down the tippy board.
15 She puts away the lipstick, zips the bag, steadies herself in her tippy heels, and goes.
16 The tippy top schools like Harvard and Stanford will give you the money you need to attend.
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