"tip it down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tips it down [present, singular, third-person], tipping it down [participle, present], tipped it down [participle, past], tipped it down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tip it down (third-person singular simple present tips it down, present participle tipping it down, simple past and past participle tipped it down)
  1. (impersonal, UK, informal) To rain very heavily. Tags: UK, impersonal, informal Synonyms: rain cats and dogs, tip down

Inflected forms

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