if something tips over, or if someone or something tips it over, it falls onto its side
A driver was in hospital after winds tipped over his lorry in Bristol.
Be careful that the vase doesn’t tip over.
He just tipped over lightly on a carpeted floor.
He tipped his drink over.
I'm very much balancing on the edge and it's so easy for me to tip over just now.
It just tipped over onto its side and skidded along the tarmac.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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