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Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. Tiptoes.
The end, or tip, of the toe.
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He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes].
--Chaucer.
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Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. --Spenser.
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To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe
or To be on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to
be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with
expectation.
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