1. tip out - Noun
2. tip out - Verb
tip out (third-person singular simple present tips out, present participle tipping out, simple past and past participle tipped out)
(transitive) To extract (something) by tipping over the container that contains it.
After baking and cooling, tip the cake out of its pan.
Tip it out of the jar.
tip out (plural tip outs)
An amount or percentage of a server's tips that the server shares, either voluntarily or as mandated in a tip sharing or tip pooling agreement, with other employees such as bussers, bartenders, back waiters and host/hostesses whose job duties indirectly assist the server.
tip out (third-person singular simple present tips out, present participle tipping out, simple past and past participle tipped out)
(of a person who receives tips for their work) To provide a percentage of tips to certain co-workers who support the work done by the waiter.
It was my first day on the job, so when I tipped out the bus boy but didn't tip out the bartender, my shift supervisor let me know that bartenders should be tipped out too, and to make sure that my tip outs were at least 5% of my day's total tips.