[
UK
/tˈɪptəʊ/
]
[ US /ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- the tip of a toe
VERB
- walk on one's toes
ADVERB
-
on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe
standing tiptoe
ADJECTIVE
-
walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise
moving with tiptoe steps
How To Use tiptoe In A Sentence
- That will mean they are more likely to nod off as you're reading them a bedtime story, and then you can tiptoe away. The Sun
- She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
- But despite the brocaded swags, ornamental carvings and original works of art here, you won't feel you have to tiptoe down the corridors and talk in whispers.
- True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
- The police will tiptoe away and go and nick a few more motorists. The Sun
- Tiptoe through the garden for a moonlit soak in the hot tub or simply cuddle up by the fire in your room.
- So let us tiptoe past the legal mysteries and dwell instead on the known and the very exposed. Times, Sunday Times
- The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
- Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
- The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door.