[f. TIP sb.1 + TAIL sb.1, after tiptoe.] The tip of the tail: only in phr. on or upon tip-tail.
1836–48. B. D. Walsh, Aristoph., Acharnians, II. vi. You sat all the time upon tip-tail [Gr. ἐπʹ ἅκρων πυγιδίων on the tips of their rumps].
1876. Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., xxv. A curly serpent standing on tip tail between them.
1900. A. B. Cook, in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud., XX. 2. Straightway struck by the crown you sat there on tip-tail.
