Meaning of Tippex | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of Tippex.
   alt-of, uncountable
3. A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person...”

“Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast.”

“Overlap between chapters is a difficult issue and while we have exercised the editorial Tippex to the best of our ability, some duplication remains.”

“And all without a safety net, second take, a stroke of Tippex, an editor or producer who knows all the knobs to press, and when, to keep one's shortcomings from wider exposure.”

“Since the 1986 Social Security Act reached the statute-book, MPs have been called upon to apply 'legislative tippex' (as Frank Dobson put it) through two Bills which corrected errors relating to...”

“My staff noted that the relevant officials balanced the revenue cash-book at the end of the month in pencil and also made use of tippex.”

“How do you stand that hospital smell? I'm sure they pump it in just to annoy the visitors. It's like tippex.”

“The copy I have emphasizes that "done" ("so" or "then," in the passage from "Mordant Fleas" quoted above) by dint of tippex (white-out fluid) where the "c" should be.”

“Just as word-processing made it much easier for individuals to edit their work (who can remember the days, not so long past, of typewriters and tippex?), now programs found on most computers (such as Microsoft Word) enable users to generate texts that combine words and images – and without much more expertise to include animation and sound.”

CEFR level