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PRONUNCIATION:

(FLY-tip)

MEANING:

verb tr., intr.: To dump waste illegally instead of taking it to an authorized disposal site.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from fly-tipping, from fly (as in on-the-fly) + tip (to dump or empty out). Earliest documented use: 1985.

NOTES:

To toss a candy wrapper by the roadside is to litter. To leave a mattress, tires, or bags of rubble in an unauthorized place is to fly-tip. It’s a word for trash that prefers taking the scenic route. You could argue that fly-tipping is the absolute worst kind of junket.

USAGE:

“We clambered down to the jetty ... where someone had fly-tipped an exhausted mattress.”
Geoff Dyer; Poles Apart; The New Yorker; Apr 18, 2011.

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