0 past simple and past participle of tiptoe
1 to walk on your toes with the heel of your foot lifted off the ground, especially in order not to make a noise:
One of the newspapers said that he has tiptoed away from them.
I have actually tiptoed into this debate tonight really for two reasons.
I have not had his advantage of having tiptoed along the corridors of power.
He tiptoed on eggshells all over the issue, and that was quite unnecessary.
If that is so, he has tiptoed away like a pantomime villain, with his finger on his lips.
He tiptoed away from the whole question of a decommissioning policy.
Although you gave us some good reflections on what those causes are, there are, however, other issues that you tiptoed around.
He tiptoed round the course with great delicacy, but it appears that the old rate support grant system, with all its crudity, unfairness and across-the-board treatment, had certain attractions.