Meaning

A step that makes a clicking sound..

Definitions by Sense

1. A step that makes a clicking sound.
2. A light and rapid tap
3. A gourd or small jerry can filled with water and attached to a piece of wood at ground level, such that stepping on the wood tips the gourd or can to release a stream of water through a small hole.
4. To tap dance, or imitate tap dancing.
5. To tap lightly.

Example Sentences

[…] she trots through the halls of her mansion jiggling in her frilly dresses and making tippy-taps with her high heels.

But it was not to be, as Armbro Romance exploded out of the pocket and with a couple of tippy-taps from Campbell, the filly crossed the wire in an unreal 1:49.4, with Galleria a well-beaten second.

Happily The Delaunay is a few tippy-taps away and lobster roll has joined the menu.

I spent a good half hour trying to trap him between a sensible midsize family sedan and the lawnmower; I tried to lure him with treats; I played dead on the garage floor to see if he’d try to eat me. But he was wily and quicker on his tippy-taps than I expected.

“I love my dog, there are several things I do to manage the dander and allergens to ensure she stays with me. When she greets me at the front door after a long day at work with a wagging tail and excited tippy taps it makes it all worth it”— Liz Wallace

A wave of happiness is inevitable when you hear her dainty little tippy-taps as she makes her rounds around the back-of-house and says “hello” to staff with her big brown eyes and sweeping tail wags.

He announced himself with tippy-taps across tile floors, scratched the bedroom and office doors when it was time to move along, huffed at all the trips he had to take up and down the stairs to keep watch over me and hovered hopefully anytime my husband was in the kitchen.

In the passenger seat, Ridley bounced in place like a dog doing tippy-taps.

Word Forms

• tippy-taps
• tippy tap
• tippy-tapping
• tippy-tapped

When Should You Use Tippy-tap?

Use tippy-tap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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