'Tiptoe' definitions:

Definition of 'tiptoe'

(from WordNet)
adverb
On tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; "standing tiptoe"
adjective
Walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise; "moving with tiptoe steps"
noun
The tip of a toe
verb
Walk on one's toes [syn: tiptoe, tip, tippytoe]

Definition of 'Tiptoe'

From: GCIDE
  • Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tiptoe'

From: GCIDE
  • Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, n.; pl. Tiptoes. The end, or tip, of the toe. [1913 Webster]
  • He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tiptoe'

From: GCIDE
  • Tiptoe \Tip"toe`\, a.
  • 1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. [1913 Webster]
  • Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'tiptoe'

From: Moby Thesaurus