Usually means: Walking quietly on one's toes.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tiptoe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tiptoe: Merriam-Webster
  3. tiptoe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tiptoe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tiptoe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tiptoe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tiptoe, tiptoe: Wordnik
  8. tiptoe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tiptoe: Wiktionary
  10. tiptoe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tiptoe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tiptoe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tiptoe: Dictionary.com
  14. tiptoe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tiptoe (disambiguation), Tiptoe (song), Tiptoe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tiptoe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tiptoe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tiptoe: Rhymezone
  19. Tiptoe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tiptoe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tiptoe: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. tiptoe: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tiptoe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tiptoe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tiptoe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tiptoe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tiptoe: Idioms

(Note: See tiptoed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tiptoe)

noun:  (usually in the plural) The tip of the toe.
adjective:  Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
adjective:  Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
noun:  A small village in Hordle parish and Sway parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SZ2597).

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