(informal) secret information that sb gives, for example to the police, to warn them about an illegal activity that is going to happen:
The man was arrested after an anonymous tip-off.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tip-off is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tip-off a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tip-off is tagged as noun.
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