cow tipping

English

Noun

cow tipping (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly US) A fictional pastime wherein a person sneaks up on a sleeping cow and pushes it over.
    • 2005, Duke Rightious, The Official Cow Tipper's Handbook‎[1], →ISBN:
      The medieval cow tippers were a rutheless lot, to be sure, with their Knights of the Round Bovine Topplers, and Cowalot...But times changed and so did the fashion and style of cow tipping.
    • 2005, Michael D. Bauer, Linux Server Security, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 245:
      If setting up your database server feels like as much work as raising cattle, but with-out the glamor, you may mix business with pleasure and perform some virtual cow tipping: sneak up on your database server and try to push it over.
    • [2006, Jeremy Smith, Bum Bags and Fanny Packs: A British-American American-British Dictionary‎[2], Carroll & Graf, →ISBN:
      cow tipping v: a high school or college prank of sneaking up to a standing sleeping cow and pushing her over […]]
  2. (Internet slang) The practice of drawing the attention of a lolcow to the fact that they are being mocked.
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