Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
toe-dip en · VERB
Meanings
-
(transitive) To dip a toe into something.
Adam, who is admittedly risk-averse, kept his day job for the first 18 months after the family opened its business. During those beginning months, he said he “toe-dipped” in.
2018 May 3, Stacey Jenkins, “Family Business on Tap at Reuben's Brews”, in Rewire:Thus Clement Stone, though he has toe-dipped and waded and sometimes plunged into many ventures during the course of a busy life, is still inescapably labeled as an insurance man.
2010, Max Gunther, The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way:All newcomers who plunged or waded or toe-dipped into the market believed, or at least hoped, they had some special insight or cleverness not granted to anybody else.
2011, Max Gunther, Wall Street and Witchcraft:
-
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see toe, dip.
First she toe-dipped, and squealed, then timidly let herself down the ladder inch by chilly inch.
1981, David Littlejohn, Going to California, page 61:
Forms