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Definition: TIPCAT |
TIPCATNoun1. A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. |
"TIPCAT" is a common misspelling or typo for: tipcart. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TIPCAT |
| English words defined with "TIPCAT": Catstick ♦ Kitcat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TIPCAT": Public-house Signs. (references) |
| "TIPCAT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TIPCAT" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tipcat | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TIPCAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lloj loje (rouge et noir). (various references) | |
Arabic | لعبة أطفال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | челик. (various references) | |
French | jeu du bâtonnet. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bigézés. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipcattay.(various references) | |
Romanian | ţurcã. (various references) | |
Russian | игра в чижика. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klis. (various references) | |
Turkish | çelik çomak (skittles). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò chơi khăng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TIPCAT": tipcats. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: attic, tacit. | |
-2 letters: pact, pica, pita, tact. | |
-3 letters: act, ait, apt, att, cap, cat, pac, pat, pia, pic, pit, tap, tat, tic, tip. | |
-4 letters: ai, at, it, pa, pi, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tipcart, tipcats. | |
+2 letters: apatetic, capitate, chapatti, pathetic, pittance, protatic, tipcarts, triptyca. | |
+3 letters: apathetic, apoptotic, captivate, captivity, catoptric, chapattis, crepitant, crepitate, epistatic, patchiest, patriotic, patristic, pectinate, petticoat, pittances, prostatic, triptycas. | |
+4 letters: anticipant, anticipate, antipoetic, antiseptic, asymptotic, capacitate, capitalist, capitation, capitulate, captivated, captivates, captivator, cataleptic, chapatties, coaptation, compatriot, constipate, crepitated, crepitates, cytopathic, decapitate, empathetic, hypostatic, hypotactic, paratactic, pathetical, patriciate, patristics, pegmatitic, pentatonic, petticoats, picketboat, plasticity, postatomic, postcoital, postimpact, psittacine, punctation, spasticity, spectating, taperstick, telepathic, topicality, transcript, triplicate, tympanitic, typicality. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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