tippy

adjective

Definition of tippynext
as in wobbly

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Recent Examples of tippy For the first time ever my weight now teeters at the tippy, tippy top of that green zone. — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 16 Apr. 2026 Long-term, do the Bruins have staying power at the tippy top of the sport? — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2026 Known as 40 Duke, the locale is nestled in the upper floors of its historic flagship—with only those at the tippy top of Selfridges’s loyalty program gaining full access. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2026 But bonds are a lot less risky than today’s tippy toppy S&P 500. — William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tippy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tippy
  1. wobbly
  2. tipsy
  3. rocky
  4. shaky
  5. wonky
  6. precarious
Adjective
  • Fewer and fewer companies offer pensions, however, making that stool increasingly wobbly.
    — Trina Paul,Dan Avery, CNBC, 10 July 2026
  • June’s tepid hiring comes after a relative surge in job gains the previous three months, countering concerns that the war in Iran could trip up an already wobbly labor market.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
Definition of wobbly
Adjective
  • Randy Quaid played the tipsy Vietnam vet and former alien abductee Russell Casse, who ultimately delivers righteous vengeance upon Earth’s otherworldly invaders.
    — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • Taqueria Hoy remains a refuge for factory workers, restaurant crews, tipsy clubbers, cops, families, insomniacs and others hungry in between.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
Definition of tipsy
Adjective
  • Hawai’i is home to a variety of beaches, from white sandy beaches to rocky shorelines; a day at the beach can differ greatly from one area to another.
    — Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2026
  • The ghost was said to be the widow of a lighthouse keeper who had stumbled off the cliff one night and fell to his death on the rocky beach below.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of rocky
Adjective
  • The exchange of strikes again tested a shaky ceasefire deal between Tehran and Washington.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • The 60-day ceasefire, agreed to in a mid-June Memorandum of Understanding, was always shaky.
    — Elise Spenner, ABC News, 9 July 2026
Definition of shaky
Adjective
  • Past attempts to teach people to spot AI faces have focused on training viewers to look for visual glitches or statistical fingerprints left behind by a particular image generator, such as a wonky ear or an eye with two pupils.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
  • The campaign marks a major public escalation in the otherwise wonky battle between a federal regulator that is typically out of the spotlight and a major broadcast network.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
Definition of wonky
Adjective
  • The story contrasts past, more restrained immigration enforcement with today’s shootings, urging that Salgado Araujo be remembered as a modern-day martyr of the American dream and immigrants’ increasingly precarious lives.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
  • Some diplomatic and intelligence officials, however, are wary of pushing Sheinbaum too hard, seeing her position as precarious.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 13 July 2026
Definition of precarious

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“Tippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippy. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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