meaning of tip

1. TIP 1. Texas Instruments Pascal. 2. A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines. Unix manual page: tip1. TIPL 1. Teach IPL. An interpretive IPL teaching system. [Sammet 1969, p. 393]. 2. A dialect of IGL. tip of the ice-cube [IBM] The visible part of something small and insignificant. Used as an ironic comment in situations where "tip of the iceberg" might be appropriate if the subject were at all important. [Jargon File] tired iron [IBM] Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new products, presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a dinosaur. tits on a keyboard Small bumps on certain keycaps to help touch-typists find the home keys ASDF and JKL; without looking. They are nearly always on the "F" and "J" of a QWERTY and the "5" of a numeric keypad. The Macintosh, perverse as usual, has them on the "D" and "K" keys. This term is based on the vernacular American expression "as useful as tits on a boar" or boar-hog, bull, bullfrog, or many other variants, meaning "not useful". [Jargon File]
2. an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a ">job"

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