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give someone information in a discreet or confidential way (They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents • An informant tipped me off as to where he was seen last, and I was sure that he would still be there. • She had remained out of sight as ordered, until their inside information had tipped her off as to the arrival of the target. • So they had this informant befriend me and tip me off that I was being monitored. • After he drove away in his own car, somebody called police and tipped them off. • Police say they were tipped off to a suspicious package near a parking garage next to the hotel. • The operation, code-named Chameleon’ began on January 15, 2004, when police in Munich were tipped off by Turkish police about a consignment of heroin which was about to be trafficked from Turkey to Western Europe. • But on the leader page, the paper lets the administration off the hook on this one, saying the information passed to the president was insufficient to tip him off about the attacks, and places the blame on the intelligence services. • If her subtle’ clues don't tip you off that she's a plant, you haven't watched much TV. • Like a detective, little clues will tip you off if they are lying to you. • All policemen involved in the incident, including the source who tipped them off, have been under investigation by the Jakarta Police's internal affairs officers. • One of the locals tips him off about it and he and the lads pile down for a night out. • However, when a supervisor attempted to disseminate the information to Homeland Security, that tipped us off that something unusual was happening. • They chat to the local fishermen who tip them off to net snags, and spend long hours poring over the charts. • We wouldn't detect it unless we were tipped off about where to look. • Yesterday we were tipped off by a man in the village about a house that had already been searched. • Or maybe it's just as simple as the fact you don't even have an account with that company which tips you off that this is not a legitimate request for your personal information. • When Macintosh tells us his snake stories have seen him banned from every dinner table in the land, he tips us off to the ideal way to view his yarns. • Why are all the examples in the documentation carefully constructed to avoid tipping you off to this behaviour? • We have a big catchment area, a lot of good young talent at the club already, and I'm sure we will be inundated with people tipping us off about other promising players throughout the country. • And thanks to David for tipping us off to the fact that Andy and Kevin happened to be in Paris at the same time as us.  lexico.com); to alert or inform someone, especially confidentially (An anonymous caller tipped off the police that the suspect would be in the area. wiktionary.org); to give someone such as the police a secret warning or piece of information, especially about illegal activities (The police must have been tipped off. • His contact had not merely tipped him off that drugs were on the premises, he had told him where to look. • There are 7-8 distinctly flattened, finely rugose arm spines, with the tips squared off. • Ralph had tipped Grover off about the developer being in over his head. • For instance, Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she doesn't know. • Some one should have tipped these people off before they opted for the independent life. • The agent who tipped them off had joined their escape into the woods. • As I raised my tips and slid off the lift, I wondered how I was going to get down the mountain. • Swanepoel, the pilot whom I had met when I first arrived in the country, tipped me off to that one. ldoceonline.com); give insider information or advise to (He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot. • He tipped off the police as to her whereabouts. thefreedictionary.com); to give one secret, private, or insider information or news, especially that which gives them or someone else an advantage of some kind (a noun or pronoun can be used between "tip" and "off": An anonymous source tipped off reporters that the senator had been using campaign money to fund private trips to the Bahamas. • I tipped the cops off about the gang's plan to rob the bank. thefreedictionary.com); to give someone a valuable piece of news about someone or something (I tipped the cops off about Max and where he was going to be that night. • I tipped off the mayor about the financial crisis. thefreedictionary.com); supply with secret or private information; also, warn or alert (The broker often tipped her off about stocks about to go down in price. • Somehow they were tipped off and left the country before the police could catch them. thefreedictionary.com); to give someone a warning or secret information about something (They were arrested after the police were tipped off. macmillandictionary.com) |
