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Tip One the Wink (To)

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To make a signal to another by a wink. Here tip means “to give,” as tip in the previous example means “a gift.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Timon of Athens
Tin
Tine-man (The)
Ting
Tinker
Tintagel or Tintagil
Tintern Abbey
Tintoretto
Tip
Tip of my Tongue
Tip One the Wink (To)
Tiphany
Tiphys
Tipperary Rifle (A)
Tippling Act (The)
Tippling House
Tipstaff
Tiptoe of Expectation (On the)
Tirer une Dent
Tiresias
Tiring Irons