tippee

English

Etymology

From tip +‎ -ee.

Noun

tippee (plural tippees)

1. The recipient of a gratuity; somebody tipped off.
   • 2009 April 4, Jennifer 8. Lee, “The Last Pullman Porters Are Sought for a Tribute”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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, law, finance) A recipient of inside information.
   • 2002 October 17, “Tips on insider trading How an investor can avoid the problems”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

     If tippees trade on the information, knowing it was given improperly, they, too, can be found guilty of insider trading, says attorney Jared Kopel