"toe-dip" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "toe-dipping",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toe-dipped",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toe-dipped",
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        "past"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Max Gunther, The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way:",
          "text": "Thus Clement Stone, though he has toe-dipped and waded and sometimes plunged into many ventures during the course of a busy life, is still inescapably labeled as an insurance man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Max Gunther, Wall Street and Witchcraft:",
          "text": "All newcomers who plunged or waded or toe-dipped into the market believed, or at least hoped, they had some special insight or cleverness not granted to anybody else.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 May 3, Stacey Jenkins, “Family Business on Tap at Reuben's Brews”, in Rewire:",
          "text": "Adam, who is admittedly risk-averse, kept his day job for the first 18 months after the family opened its business. During those beginning months, he said he “toe-dipped” in.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dip a toe into something."
      ],
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          "dip a toe into",
          "dip a toe into"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, David Littlejohn, Going to California, page 61:",
          "text": "First she toe-dipped, and squealed, then timidly let herself down the ladder inch by chilly inch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see toe, dip."
      ],
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          "dip",
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  "word": "toe-dip"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toe-dips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toe-dipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toe-dipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toe-dipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Max Gunther, The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way:",
          "text": "Thus Clement Stone, though he has toe-dipped and waded and sometimes plunged into many ventures during the course of a busy life, is still inescapably labeled as an insurance man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Max Gunther, Wall Street and Witchcraft:",
          "text": "All newcomers who plunged or waded or toe-dipped into the market believed, or at least hoped, they had some special insight or cleverness not granted to anybody else.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 May 3, Stacey Jenkins, “Family Business on Tap at Reuben's Brews”, in Rewire:",
          "text": "Adam, who is admittedly risk-averse, kept his day job for the first 18 months after the family opened its business. During those beginning months, he said he “toe-dipped” in.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dip a toe into something."
      ],
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        [
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        ]
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1981, David Littlejohn, Going to California, page 61:",
          "text": "First she toe-dipped, and squealed, then timidly let herself down the ladder inch by chilly inch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see toe, dip."
      ],
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          "dip",
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    }
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}