Usually means: Provide secret information discreetly beforehand.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word tip off:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. tip off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tip-off: Merriam-Webster
  3. tip-off, tip off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tip-off, tip-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tip-off, tip-off: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tip-off, tip off: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tip-Off, Tip-off, tip-off: Wordnik
  8. tip-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tip-off, tip off: Wiktionary
  10. tip-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tip-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tip-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tip-off, tip off: Dictionary.com
  14. tip-off: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Tip-Off, The Tip-Off (film), Tip Off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. tip-off, tip off: Rhymezone
  17. tip-off, tip off: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tip-off, tip off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tip-off, tip off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tip off: Legal dictionary
  2. tip off: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tip-off, tip off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tip off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tip off: Idioms
  2. tip-off: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tip off, tip off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tip off: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. tip-off: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Tip off: Sports Definitions

(Note: See tip_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tip off)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
verb:  (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
verb:  (of a sports match) To begin.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To pour out (liquor); to tip the vessel and drink until it is empty.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive, painting) To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint.

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