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To tippex something is to paint white correction fluid over a mistake on paper so it disappears and you can write again on top. It is the verb made from the brand name , and it is used in British and Irish English the way people say 'to hoover' the floor or 'to google' a name — the brand became the ordinary word for the action. You will see it written several ways because it is a brand caught halfway to being a normal verb: tippex, , . As a verb, the lower-case form without the is the most usual, and it takes normal endings: tippexed, tippexing. It is often followed by 'out' or 'over': 'I tippexed out the wrong number', 'she tippexed over the whole line'. Two notes on feeling. First, this is informal and spoken. In careful or formal writing you would say 'correct', 'cover with correction fluid', or simply 'cross out'. Second, it is British and Irish, not American — an American would say 'white it out' or 'use Wite-Out'. There is also a small extra use, half-joking, where people say a fact or a person was tippexed out of a document or a photo, meaning erased on purpose so no trace shows. That use borrows the picture of the white paint hiding what was underneath.
塗立可白（把寫錯的地方用修正液蓋掉）；英式用法，動詞化的品牌名。台灣人講「用立可白塗掉」，美式英語則說 white it out。
組成Made from the trademark Tipp-Ex, which itself joins German 'tippen' (to type) with Latin 'ex' (out) — 'typing it out'. Turning a brand name into a plain verb like this is called trademark erosion.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Tippexnoun
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A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.
- If an application form is completed incorrectly or there's Tippex on it or the spelling is incorrect, then frankly I do not have the time or the patience to think that we will recruit that person...
- Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Unwanted Tummies. Perhaps we can manufacture special bottles of Tippex For Use on Burnt Toast.
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A particular brand of correction tape, or correction tape in general.
Tippexverb
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To delete using correction fluid.
- Lara also ends on an imminent return to “my island—the 'Great' Tippexed out of it,” with the lines: “It is time to leave./ Back to London, across international time zones, I step out of Heathrow and into my future.”
- Then, literally out of the blue, it appears as though someone has Tippexed a freehand circle on the surface of the water and splashed a little bleach and blue curaçao within the outline.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。