"tipline" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "tip + line",
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  "etymology_text": "tip + line",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tiplines",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Shay Bilchik, When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, page 59",
          "text": "Some tiplines assign a special number to each caller to ensure that a particular caller gets credit for the tip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Carlos A. Arnaldo, Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence, page 211",
          "text": "They hold classes online to teach safety and have one of the most popular volunteer tiplines at the site to report cybercrimes against children.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A hotline allowing callers to tip off the authorities."
      ],
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        [
          "tip off",
          "tip off"
        ]
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  "word": "tipline"
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "tip",
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      "expansion": "tip + line",
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  "etymology_text": "tip + line",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tiplines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "tipline (plural tiplines)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Shay Bilchik, When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, page 59",
          "text": "Some tiplines assign a special number to each caller to ensure that a particular caller gets credit for the tip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Carlos A. Arnaldo, Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence, page 211",
          "text": "They hold classes online to teach safety and have one of the most popular volunteer tiplines at the site to report cybercrimes against children.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hotline allowing callers to tip off the authorities."
      ],
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        [
          "hotline",
          "hotline"
        ],
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          "tip off",
          "tip off"
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