Noun
TIPS (plural TIPSes)
(medicine) Initialism of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line. Pliny the Elder
Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him. John Steinbeck
Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other. Simon Armitage
Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. "Did you know your name means ‘wisdom'? It was very well-given. Cassandra Clare
I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver. Cassandra Clare
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man. Gabriel García Márquez