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wingtip en · NOUN

Etymology

From wing + tip.

Meanings

1. The extreme tip of the wing of an aircraft, bird, flying insect, etc.
   • The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together. 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26:
   • They're wonderful hoverers, though, and they'll remain stationary in the air, wing-tips vibrating, till they've marked their prey[.] 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 13:
2. A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe.
3. (US) A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe. ▸ A brogue (shoe).
   • Then, immaculately dressed in three-piece suit, starched collar, and wingtips, Wilbur was obliged to drive a spike of Nevada silver into a railroad tie, a tricky and potentially embarrassing ceremonoial duty, especially with a phalanx of eager photographers poised to record every misswing. 2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure:

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Translations (4)

de Flügelkappe (of a shoe) · de Flügelspitze (of flying things) · fr saumon (of flying things) · pl kapka (of a shoe)