tip someone's velvet

== English == === 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. === Verb === tip someone's velvet (third-person singular simple present tips someone's velvet, present participle tipping someone's velvet, simple past and past participle tipped someone's velvet) (slang, euphemistic) To give oral sex to a female.