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tip-and-run


noun a form of cricket in which the person batting must run if he or she hits the ball. Compare hit-and-run, tip-and-go, tippety, tippety-run, tippy cricket, tippy-go-run, tippy-runs, tipsy, tipsy-run.
Contributor's comments: For cricket where you have to run if you hit the ball, we say we are playing tip and run (Perth area).

Contributor's comments: Here in NSW it is called 'tip and run'.

Contributor's comments: Have heard it elsewhere, possibly North Qld, or maybe ACT. On reflection, NQ, as Tip & Run.

Contributor's comments: In WA it is called "tip and run".

Contributor's comments: Melbourne late 1950s/early 1960s: usually abbreviated to 'tippedies"

Contributor's comments: Also used in WA in backyard and park cricket.

Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] Also nick-and-run.

Contributor's comments: This term was not used where I grew up, in Mornington Victoria, in the 1950s and 60s. The term used there was "tippitty-run"

Contributor's comments: Here on the NSW / Victorian border, when we were in primary school we actually refered to this as "tippity-cricket". (WODONGA , Vic). This would be going back about twenty years ago now.

Contributor's comments: In northern SA (Booleroo Centre) in the 1950s, we called it tipny-scoot.

Contributor's comments: We used the expression in the 1930s and 1940s in Townsville. I never saw the expression written down.