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Tippex en · NOUN

Etymology

Tipp-Ex is originally a trademark, owned since 1997 by Société Bic. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion. The first component is from the German verb tippen (“to type”), and the second from Latin ex.

Meanings

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable) A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
   • If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person... 1996, Tamara Goriely, Tom Williams, The Impact of the New Training Scheme: Report on a Qualitative Study:
   • Overlap between chapters is a difficult issue and while we have exercised the editorial Tippex to the best of our ability, some duplication remains. 2010, David Ames, Alistair Burns, John T. O'Brien, Dementia, 4th Edition, →ISBN, page xxiii:
   • Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast. 1996, Pat Ingoldsby, Laugh without prejudice, →ISBN, page 164:
   • And all without a safety net, second take, a stroke of Tippex, an editor or producer who knows all the knobs to press, and when, to keep one's shortcomings from wider exposure. 2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport, →ISBN, page 238:
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable) A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.

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Descendants

טיפקס

Translations (6)

sv tippex (brand of correction fluid) · es típex (brand of correction fluid) · sv Tipp-Ex (brand of correction fluid) · af flaterwater (brand of correction fluid) · pl korektor (brand of correction fluid) · fr tipex (brand of correction fluid)

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Tippex en · VERB

Etymology

Tipp-Ex is originally a trademark, owned since 1997 by Société Bic. Its use in the general sense is an example of trademark erosion. The first component is from the German verb tippen (“to type”), and the second from Latin ex.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To delete using correction fluid.
   • I also Tippexed out the swear-words that I'd scrawled over the Tippexed-out November gigs. 2011, Andy Kind, Stand Up and Deliver: A Nervous Rookie on the Comedy Circuit, →ISBN:
   • Then, literally out of the blue, it appears as though someone has Tippexed a freehand circle on the surface of the water and splashed a little bleach and blue curaçao within the outline. 2005, Belinda Jones, The Paradise Room, →ISBN, page 59:
   • Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.” 2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, →ISBN, page 95:

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