tipoff

ihbar, uyarı, ipucu

a piece of information, often secret, that alerts someone to a possible event or wrongdoing

A quick tipoff helped the security guard stop the theft in the hallway.

• After the tipoff, the police set up a surveillance operation near the warehouse.
• The journalist relied on a tipoff from an anonymous source to break the story.
• Despite the detailed tipoff, the investigation uncovered additional layers of corruption.

• a tip-off about sth Police received a tip-off about the robbery.

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