tippex

English

Verb

tippex (third-person singular simple present tippexes, present participle tippexing, simple past and past participle tippexed)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tippex
   • 2004, Rights at Work, →ISBN, page 73:

     If the employer knows you are sick, he can arrange things at work so that the job can go on. First tippex out the wife's name, then write in my name.

Noun

tippex (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tippex
   • 1989, A. W. Dilnot, Ian Walker, The Economics of social security, page 211:

     Since the 1986 Social Security Act reached the statute-book, MPs have been called upon to apply 'legislative tippex' (as Frank Dobson put it) through two Bills which corrected errors relating to...

   • 1998, Report of the Auditor General on the Accounts of the Government of Namibia for the Financial Year Ended 31 March 1998:

     My staff noted that the relevant officials balanced the revenue cash-book at the end of the month in pencil and also made use of tippex.

   • 1998, Sally Goldsworthy, Young Blood, page 286:

     How do you stand that hospital smell? I'm sure they pump it in just to annoy the visitors. It's like tippex.

   • 2003, Tom Raworth, Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, page 179:

     The copy I have emphasizes that "done" ("so" or "then," in the passage from "Mordant Fleas" quoted above) by dint of tippex (white-out fluid) where the "c" should be.

   • 2005 -, Anne Cranny-Francis, MultiMedia: Texts and Contexts, →ISBN, page 6:

     Just as word-processing made it much easier for individuals to edit their work (who can remember the days, not so long past, of typewriters and tippex?), now programs found on most computers (such as Microsoft Word) enable users to generate texts that combine words and images – and without much more expertise to include animation and sound.

French

Noun

tippex m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of tipex

Swedish

Noun

tippex c

1. Tippex (correction fluid, often in general, as a genericized trademark)

Declension

Declension of tippex

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tippex	tippexs
	definite	tippexen	tippexens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• tippexa

References

• tippex in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)