Tip Explained

Tip or TIP may refer to:

Common meanings

• Tip (gambling)
• Tip (gratuity)
• Tip (law enforcement)
• another term for advice

Science and technology

• Tank phone, a device allowing infantry to communicate with the occupants of an armoured vehicle
• Targeted intervention program, a type of medication therapy management
• Telecom Infra Project
• Tip and ring, two wires in a telephone line
• Terminal indecomposable past set
• Texas Instruments Power, a series of transistors
• Third-order intercept point, a measure of linearity in amplifiers and mixers
• Titanium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
• TM Forum Integration Program, a framework of Frameworx

Computing

• Tip (Unix utility), a software program for remote terminal sessions
• Terminal Interface Processor, used to provide terminal sessions on ARPANET
• Tertiary Ideographic Plane, a range of ideographic characters in the Unicode standard
• Threat Intelligence Platform, an emerging technology discipline that helps organizations manage threat data from multiple sources
• GNU nano or TIP, a text editor program

Music

• Tip (rapper) or T.I. (born 1980), American rapper
• Tip (album), an album by Finger Eleven
• T.I.P. (album), an album by Young Buck
• The Tip (album), an album by David Murray

Politics

• The Independent Party, a political party in Kenya
• Thurrock Independents Party, a political party in the United Kingdom
• Tigray Independence Party, a political party in Ethiopia
• Transition Integrity Project, a group concerned with the 2020 US presidential election
• Turkistan Islamic Party
• Türkiye İşçi Partisi or Workers Party of Turkey

Schools

• Textile Institute of Pakistan
• Technological Institute of the Philippines

Other uses

• Pajinka, known in English as "The Tip," the northernmost point of Cape York, Queensland, Australia
• Tip (ice hockey), the redirection of a shot on net
• Tip (nickname)
• Tip (sculpture), a sculpture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• The Tip (film), a 1918 film starring Harold Lloyd
• Tip and Tap, the 1974 FIFA World Cup official mascots
• Rubbish tip or landfill
• Square dance tip, a round of two dances in square dancing
• TIP Trailer Services
• Tip TV, an Albanian TV channel for children and teenagers
• Talent Identification Program, a gifted education program at Duke University
• Team Impulse or TiP, a North American League of Legends team
• Princess Ozma or Tip, a character in The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Tripoli International Airport, by IATA airport code
• Tianjin South railway station, China Railway telegraph code TIP
• Trafficking in Persons Report
• The Tip (American football), an American football play

People with the name

• Tippu Tip (1837–1905), real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi, Swahili-Zanzibari slave trader
• Tip Htila, 19th-20th century Burmese princess and businesswoman

See also

• Tip of the iceberg (disambiguation)
• Hat tip, an expression of recognition or gratitude
• List of typhoons named Tip
• Spoil tip, a mound of waste material created during mining operations
• Tipp (disambiguation)
• Tipping (disambiguation)
• Tipping point (disambiguation)
• Tips (disambiguation)