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tippy
adjective
uk /ˈtɪp.i/ us /ˈtɪp.i/
mainly US
If something is tippy, it is likely to move about so that one side is higher than the other, or to turn over: 容易倾斜的
It was hard to sleep on the tippy wooden benches in the bus station.在公共汽车站的倾斜木凳上很难能睡着。
Her tippy little racing canoe was not designed for such difficult conditions.她那容易翻的小皮艇不是为这种困难的条件设计的。
We had to cross over to other side of the river using a tippy raft.
I discovered that my cabin was in the tippiest part of the boat.
The earliest skateboard was just a tippy piece of wood bolted onto some wheels.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
acclivity
angled
anteversion
anteverted
askew
gentleness
inclination
incline
lean
lopsided
lopsidedly
lopsidedness
oblique
rake
skew
skew-whiff
slant
slanting
slantingly
steep
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Unsafe and insecure
on tippy toes
(alsoon your tippy toes)
child's expression for on tiptoe(s): （童语）踮著腳尖的
I had to get on tippy toes to see over the fence.我必须得踮起脚尖才能看到围栏那边。
I got on my tippy toes and reached for the bottles.我踮起脚尖伸手去拿那些瓶子。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving gently on foot
amble
blow
circulate
dumbwalking
flâneur
gently
meander
mincing
mincingly
mooch
mosey
pad
paseo
plod
potter
process
promenade
stroll
tiptoe
wander
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