hot tip

noun

informal
: a valuable piece of information about something (such as the stock market or a horse race) that can help someone get money or an advantage

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Day trading took off, and the platforms’ chat rooms became clearinghouses for stock tips and rumors, replacing the old hot tip from your brother-in-law’s cousin whose best friend worked at the company. — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Sep. 2026 Until 12 days later, when a hot tip arrived in my inbox from a customer service representative named Aakash. — Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2026 Around a century ago, in New York, a white starlet named Irene Delroy got a hot tip from her maid, who was Black. — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026 This is their first awards season at Loewe, and therefore, the first time the public really gets to see their aesthetic vision for formal wear—making this a hot tip for fashion obsessives. — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hot tip

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“Hot tip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20tip. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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