"tip one's hand" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-tip one's hand.ogg [Australia] Forms: tips one's hand [present, singular, third-person], tipping one's hand [participle, present], tipped one's hand [participle, past], tipped one's hand [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tip one's hand (third-person singular simple present tips one's hand, present participle tipping one's hand, simple past and past participle tipped one's hand)
  1. (card games) In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand. Categories (topical): Card games Related terms: show one's cards Translations (to accidentally reveal one's hand): näyttää korttinsa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-tip_one's_hand-en-verb-9wxtQpN- Categories (other): English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 50 50 Topics: card-games, games Disambiguation of "to accidentally reveal one's hand": 67 33
  2. (figurative) To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage. Tags: figuratively Translations (to inadvertently reveal a secret): lipsauttaa (Finnish), sich verraten (German), wyjawiać [imperfective] (Polish), wyjawić [perfective] (Polish), раскры́ть карты (raskrýtʹ karty) (Russian), вы́дать намерения (výdatʹ namerenija) (Russian), revelar sus cartas (Spanish), vérsele el plumero (Spanish), enseñar la pata [colloquial] (Spanish), försäga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-tip_one's_hand-en-verb-vRTfoe6e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 33 67 Disambiguation of English predicates: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 29 71 Disambiguation of 'to inadvertently reveal a secret': 32 68

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