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Originally Posted by brandrea
To be fair a TIP was originally a thing back in the 18th century coffee houses.
Patrons would pay in advance To Insure Prompt Service, much like the OP hopes to accomplish.  |
That is not true. It's not an acronym.
The noun in this sense is from 1755. The term in the sense of "to give a gratuity" first appeared in the 18th century. It derived from an earlier sense of tip, meaning "to give; to hand, pass", which originated in the thieves' cant in the 17th century. This sense may have derived from the 16th-century "tip" meaning "to strike or hit smartly but lightly" (which may have derived from the Low German tippen, "to tap"), but this derivation is "very uncertain".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity