[f. TIP v.4 2 + -EE.] One who is ‘tipped’; the receiver of a tip’ or gratuity, or the tip of a hat.
1887. Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, SD), 13 Aug., 4/2. An ‘Anti-hattipper’ society has been organized in a Pennsylvania town by the young men. They claim that the process of lifting the head piece has become a bore instead of a means of showing the respect of the tippor for the tippee.
1887. Burlington Free Press, 10 Sept., 4/1. Many hotel and summer-resort proprietors hire help at a lower price than would otherwise be possible, with the understanding that ‘tips’ shall make up the deficit…. It is not the tippee who is at fault so much as the hotel proprietor who makes such things not only possible but absolutely necessary.
1897. Daily News, 23 Sept., 5/1. The working of economic law frustrates the … intention of both tipper and tippee.
1907. Lady Grove, Soc. Fetich, v. The system of ‘tips’ is at times humiliating to both ‘tipper’ and ‘tippee.’
