"tip someone's velvet" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tips someone's velvet [present, singular, third-person], tipping someone's velvet [participle, present], tipped someone's velvet [participle, past], tipped someone's velvet [past]
Etymology: A faux-Victorian expression invented by novelist Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998). Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tip someone's velvet (third-person singular simple present tips someone's velvet, present participle tipping someone's velvet, simple past and past participle tipped someone's velvet)
  1. (euphemistic) To give oral sex to someone (female). Wikipedia link: Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: en-tip_someone's_velvet-en-verb-r0p~-7hU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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