tipline
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Noun[edit]
tipline (plural tiplines)
- A hotline allowing callers to tip off the authorities.
- 1999, Shay Bilchik, When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, page 59:
- Some tiplines assign a special number to each caller to ensure that a particular caller gets credit for the tip.
- 2001, Carlos A. Arnaldo, Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence, page 211:
- They hold classes online to teach safety and have one of the most popular volunteer tiplines at the site to report cybercrimes against children.