tippex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
British usage; Uncountable
noun
A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.
British usage; Uncountable
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Tippex.
Example Sentences
- "If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person..."
- "Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast."
- "Overlap between chapters is a difficult issue and while we have exercised the editorial Tippex to the best of our ability, some duplication remains."
- "And all without a safety net, second take, a stroke of Tippex, an editor or producer who knows all the knobs to press, and when, to keep one's shortcomings from wider exposure."
- "Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.”"
- "Then, literally out of the blue, it appears as though someone has Tippexed a freehand circle on the surface of the water and splashed a little bleach and blue curaçao within the outline."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Uncountable
- Transitive verb