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• n  the tip of a toe
• v  walk on one's toes
• s  walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise
  moving with tiptoe steps
• r  on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe
  standing tiptoe

• Little girls vanish in the forest; trees tiptoe like goblins; a horse devours a child; a wolf can fly.
• In many countries you expect police investigators to tiptoe around a prime minister.
• For little added cost, it can turn a 32 T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.

• tip
• tippytoe

News & Articles

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• UB student tracks behavior of Buffalo’s polar bear cubs
  On a Tuesday morning in June, warm but overcast, school groups huddle around the Buffalo Zoo’s polar bear exhibit. The children come and go in great, chattering waves of 20 or 30, oohing and aahing and balancing on tiptoe to get a better view.
  June 27, 2013 - UB Reporter

Quotes

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• Barney Frank in Taipei Times
  The rising tide is a very good idea if you have a boat,Frank said. "But if you are too poor to afford a boat and you are standing tiptoe in the water, the rising tide goes up your nose."
• George HW Bush in San Diego Union Tribune
  But just as he's not going to tiptoe about his differences with the president, I wouldn't tiptoe with my differences with Hillary,Bush said. "But I don't plan to be all involved in this."
• Leon Panetta in International Herald Tribune
  You better damn well do the tough stuff up front, because if you think you can delay the tough decisions and tiptoe past the graveyard, you're in for a lot of trouble,Panetta said. "Make the decisions that involve pain and sacrifice up...