Does anyone know? what t.i.p.s. stand for?

Answer 1

if u mean like tips u give a waiter/waitress it used to mean :"to insure promptness" and you would give them the money before they served you to make sure they did a good job. i hope this is what you were looking for!

Answer 2

very interesting.see the website below and The Maven's Word of the Day" says:

March 17, 1999
tip

J.F. Lozier wrote:
I read in the paper today that the etymology for "tip," meaning a small sum of money given in appreciation for a service rendered, is that people give tips "To Insure Prompt Service." However, this seems to me highly improbable. Although it explains with some originality the plural for of the word, it does not explain the singular "tip." But what is the true origin of the word?
Well, the singular tip could easily be explained away by expanding the acronym as "To Insure Promptness," but that is irrelevant. The word tip 'a gratuity' does not come from an acronym. And as I've warned before, if you automatically answer "it's not an acronym" in response to any such suggestion, you'll be ahead of the game.

The origin of tip in uncertain, though. Its age is what makes clear that it is not an acronym; as a verb tip is found in the early seventeenth century, and as a noun by the mid-eighteenth. Acronyms didn't really become common until the post-WWI era in English.

Tip was originally thieves' slang--then called "cant"--and meant 'to give; pass along'. Sometimes tip was used with a sum of money as the object, in constructions such as "tip me a guinea" ("me" is an indirect object in this sentence). Both uses are found in 1610. The familiar current use, 'to give a gratuity to (a person)', is first recorded in the early eighteenth century and was still considered unfamiliar in the mainstream later in the eighteenth century ("He advised his friend...to begin with tipping (as it is called) the great man's servant"--Henry Fielding). The noun, as mentioned, dates from the middle of the eighteenth century. The senses 'a secret or private piece of information; secret advice' ("gave me a tip about the stock market") or 'a useful hint or idea' ("tips on baking bread") are probably figurative derivations from our tip, though some dictionaries regard these as separate words.

Our tip may derive from an earlier tip 'to strike lightly; tap'; there are semantic connections with touch that argue in favor of such a link. But whatever the ultimate origin, rest assured that the likes of "To Insure Prompt Service" have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Answer 3

To Insure Promptness.

Answer 4

To insure prompt service

Answer 5

To insure proper service

Answer 6

It's somthing like Training for Intervention Procedures. Bartenders take a class to get certified in when to cut off someone's alcohol consumption, and how to avoid liability if you served someone who had an alcohol related accident.

Answer 7

I think it stands for "to insure prompt service"

Answer 8

it's known to me as "To Insure Prompt Service"

Answer 9

to insure proper service

Answer 10

i always heard to insure proper services