: one who gives or sells tips especially for gambling or speculation
Examples of tipster in a Sentence
An anonymous tipster reported the crime.
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Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (DCS) has posted the chip's preliminary CPU performance results on Weibo.
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Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Guevara's coverage of immigration raids, often documented live with the help of a network of tipsters, has earned him a substantial social media following that exceeds 782,000 on Facebook alone.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
About a month after that, a tipster came forward to say LeFleur had killed his wife and buried her in the desert, leading to the discovery of her body about a mile north of the state park in the Dog Canyon area, prosecutors said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 May 2025
Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
—Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Guevara's coverage of immigration raids, often documented live with the help of a network of tipsters, has earned him a substantial social media following that exceeds 782,000 on Facebook alone.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
About a month after that, a tipster came forward to say LeFleur had killed his wife and buried her in the desert, leading to the discovery of her body about a mile north of the state park in the Dog Canyon area, prosecutors said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 May 2025
Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
—Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Tipster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tipster. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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tipster
noun
tip·ster
ˈtip-stər 
: one who provides a tip to the police
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