tipster

[ tip-ster ]

noun

1. a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, tip, as for betting or speculation.

tipster

/ ˈtɪpstə /

noun

1. a person who sells tips on horse racing, the stock market, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of tipster¹

First recorded in 1860–65; tip ³ + -ster

Example Sentences

The tipster, according to court records, also said Burnham told them that they would see him on television.

From Washington Post

The sheriff’s office told The Daily Beast they’d forwarded the message because the tipster lived in Anacortes.

From The Daily Beast

When a tipster told FBI agents that Hatley had the app on his smartphone, they sent a search warrant to Life360 days after the attack.

From Washington Post

From that video, a tipster pointed the FBI to Mullins’s Kentucky driver’s license photo, which allowed FBI investigators to figure out where he had a bank account, according to a criminal complaint.

From Washington Post

D’Antuono says the government is grateful for the “invaluable assistance in this investigation” that tipsters have provided investigators.

From Time

And by a tipster who seems to be posing as a Tea Partier—but who one source suspects is affiliated with the Clintons?

From The Daily Beast

According to both Gaga and her fiercely loyal tipster, Hilton was subsequently escorted from the premises by building security.

From The Daily Beast

A tipster, who asked to remain anonymous, sent a video of the notoriously anti-Palestinian politician to Open Zion.

From The Daily Beast

The tipster reportedly received email messages stating that: “Medellin was in Mexico and had not returned.”

From The Daily Beast

Another theory surfaced a year later, when an unidentifed tipster told police Orlandi was kidnapped to keep her father quiet.

From The Daily Beast

If the tipster had only kept up that pace throughout the afternoon all his followers would be winners at the track.

From Project Gutenberg

That chap Blake did me a good turn once, bit of a tipster myself, but not a patch on him, dontcher know.

From Project Gutenberg

I taxed him with it, and the man revealed himself then as Sammy Blake, the tipster.

From Project Gutenberg

Yes, this must be one of those "interesting people" that unknown SS tipster back on Terra had mentioned.

From Project Gutenberg

As the result of much thought about his losses Gilmartin became a professional tipster.

From Project Gutenberg

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