Tipcat

Alternative forms

• tip-cat

Origin

tip + cat

Full definition of tipcat

Noun

1. An old game in which a small piece of wood, pointed at both ends, called a "cat", is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. — Macaulay.
2. The wooden stick used in this game.