tippytoe
- v walk on one's toes
- But it's an awful, dirge-y arrangement, with Final Countdown synths, her variations on the melody are tuneless and she scrapes bottom on the low notes while straining on tippytoe .
- When Perfectionist Paar berates stagehands ("the tippytoe squad") for being slow, his writers for providing dull jokes, the studio audience for not laughing, it is all done in .
- A case in point: one soloist performs a legato variation delicately poised on tippytoe.