(US) tip wage credit

For a person who receives tips in the course of their work, to provide a percentage of tips to certain co-workers who support the work done by the waiter.

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.

plural of tip credit

plural of tip out

(chiefly US) A fictional pastime wherein a person sneaks up on a sleeping cow and pushes it over.

Alternative form of Q-tip

(mathematics, catastrophe theory) The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.

(baseball) a foul ball which glances off the bat and continues back with only a moderate change in direction

Trademark for a cotton swab consisting of short, thin, flexible plastic rods with a swab of cotton wool (UK)/cotton (US) at each end; they are typically used for cleaning the ears and other hard-to-reach places.