• Tippee

    Origin

    tip + -ee

    Full definition of tippee

    Noun

    tippee

    (plural tippees)
    1. The recipient of a gratuity.
      • 2009, April 4, Jennifer 8. Lee, The Last Pullman Porters Are Sought for a Tribute, An 1890 article in The New York Times debated the ethics of tipping porters : “Tipping is objected to by austere and frugal American moralists upon the ground that it undermines the manhood and self-respect of the tippee.
    2. (US, legal, finance) A recipient of inside information.
      • 2002, Oct 17, Tips on insider trading How an investor can avoid the problems, If tippees trade on the information, knowing it was given improperly, they, too, can be found guilty of insider trading, says attorney Jared Kopel
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