Tiptoe
verb
To walk quietly and carefully with your heels off the ground.
I tiptoed past the sleeping dog so as not to wake it up.
Often appears as...
- tiptoe around
- tiptoe past
noun
A quiet and careful way of walking.
He made his way into the room on tiptoe to avoid being noticed.
Often appears as...
- on tiptoe
- walk on tiptoe
adverb
Walking quietly and carefully with your heels off the ground.
She moved tiptoe across the room to not wake the baby.
Often appears as...
- move tiptoe
- go tiptoe
verb
To walk quietly and carefully with your heels off the ground.
I tiptoed past the sleeping dog so as not to wake it up.
Often appears as...
- tiptoe around
- tiptoe past
noun
A quiet and careful way of walking.
He made his way into the room on tiptoe to avoid being noticed.
Often appears as...
- on tiptoe
- walk on tiptoe
adverb
Walking quietly and carefully with your heels off the ground.
She moved tiptoe across the room to not wake the baby.
Often appears as...
- move tiptoe
- go tiptoe
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Sneaking Around
Use 'tiptoe' when describing moving silently to avoid detection or disturbance, like avoiding a wake-up.
She tiptoed out of the baby’s room after bedtime.
Pro Tip 2/3Light Movement
The action is careful and delicate, often to avoid making noise on the floor.
The dancers tiptoed backstage as the play went on.
Pro Tip 3/3Building Suspense
In storytelling, 'tiptoe' can describe a tense situation where silence is crucial.
The thief tiptoed around the darkened house, avoiding creaky floorboards.
Pro Tip 1/3Sneaking Around
Use 'tiptoe' when describing moving silently to avoid detection or disturbance, like avoiding a wake-up.
She tiptoed out of the baby’s room after bedtime.
Pro Tip 2/3Light Movement
The action is careful and delicate, often to avoid making noise on the floor.
The dancers tiptoed backstage as the play went on.
Pro Tip 3/3Building Suspense
In storytelling, 'tiptoe' can describe a tense situation where silence is crucial.
The thief tiptoed around the darkened house, avoiding creaky floorboards.
Pro Tip 1/3Sneaking Around
Use 'tiptoe' when describing moving silently to avoid detection or disturbance, like avoiding a wake-up.
She tiptoed out of the baby’s room after bedtime.
Pro Tip 2/3Light Movement
The action is careful and delicate, often to avoid making noise on the floor.
The dancers tiptoed backstage as the play went on.
Pro Tip 3/3Building Suspense
In storytelling, 'tiptoe' can describe a tense situation where silence is crucial.
The thief tiptoed around the darkened house, avoiding creaky floorboards.
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Strange answers to the...
said you know I've got the Stockwell strangler on one side of me and I've got the tiptoe through the tulips rapist on the other side of me so I tend to stay in my room a lot because I find quite frightening and they take Dad is a sign
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Carol Beckwith & Angela...
reveal the whiteness teeth and eyes woulda be men say it's through the power of the eyes that marriages are made when the men are made up they gather together forming long lines rising up and down on tiptoe to
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Dave Isay: Everyone...
You don't have to apologize. You don't have to tiptoe. We're not going to cut you off, and that's something I've always wanted you to just know, that you're loved. You know, I live this every day now.
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Can VR help create...
she walks around she hears sounds she feels virtual touch but in her version of the world there's a chasm it's ten meters deep and we put a very rickety plank over it her task is to tiptoe
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but over long distances it's the world champion but all large herbivores have to be able to run fast they run on tiptoe so that they cover more ground with each stride
Video examples
Strange answers to the...
said you know I've got the Stockwell strangler on one side of me and I've got the tiptoe through the tulips rapist on the other side of me so I tend to stay in my room a lot because I find quite frightening and they take Dad is a sign
Video examples
Carol Beckwith & Angela...
reveal the whiteness teeth and eyes woulda be men say it's through the power of the eyes that marriages are made when the men are made up they gather together forming long lines rising up and down on tiptoe to
Video examples
Dave Isay: Everyone...
You don't have to apologize. You don't have to tiptoe. We're not going to cut you off, and that's something I've always wanted you to just know, that you're loved. You know, I live this every day now.
Video examples
Can VR help create...
she walks around she hears sounds she feels virtual touch but in her version of the world there's a chasm it's ten meters deep and we put a very rickety plank over it her task is to tiptoe
Video examples
Best Animal Escapes PIPE...
but over long distances it's the world champion but all large herbivores have to be able to run fast they run on tiptoe so that they cover more ground with each stride
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Quote examples
Alexa Vega
American Actress
I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
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Gretchen Mol
American Actress
I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Sasha Spielberg
American Actress
We're incredibly honest. I don't tiptoe around my choice of words with Theo. This can start some fights, but in a very healthy way.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish Diplomat
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Glenn Beck
American Journalist
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
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Josh Billings
American Comedian
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Michael Michele
American Actor
Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.
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Doug Larson
American Journalist
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
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Shannon Hoon
American Musician
Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.
Quote examples
Alexa Vega
American Actress
I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
Quote examples
Gretchen Mol
American Actress
I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.
Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Quote examples
Sasha Spielberg
American Actress
We're incredibly honest. I don't tiptoe around my choice of words with Theo. This can start some fights, but in a very healthy way.
Quote examples
Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish Diplomat
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Quote examples
Glenn Beck
American Journalist
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
Quote examples
Josh Billings
American Comedian
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Quote examples
Michael Michele
American Actor
Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.
Quote examples
Doug Larson
American Journalist
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
Quote examples
Shannon Hoon
American Musician
Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.
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