# tip someone's velvet

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To give oral sex to a female.

## Etymology
A faux-Victorian expression invented by novelist Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998). Perhaps relatedly, John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) gives velvet as a slang term for the tongue.

## Source
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