to give someone a warning or secret information about something
And she'd been up a couple of hours before me, after a tip-off from a contact in the police control room.
I get the feeling he's had a tip-off from another force.
Now I told her what Serena had said about having had a tip-off.
The tip-off, informing us where the Kilo will show up, came from an impeccable source.
They were arrested after the police were tipped off.
tips off
tipping off
tipped off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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