fly-tipping

British term for the illegal dumping of waste material.

'since organising her neighbours to lobby the city council to spend £1m to clean up their area, renovate houses, plant trees and stop fly-tipping...' (Tim Bouquet interviewing Sameen Ali in the Times magazine, 08.03.08)

by kenneth purtell March 8, 2008

fly-tipping

An environmental crime whereby the perpetrator engages in unautorized dumping of waste.

Fly-tipping is now under crack-down in England.

by JustJen March 15, 2005

fly-tipping

An environmental crime whereby the perpetrator engages in the unautorized dumping of waste.

Fly-tipping is now under crack-down in Great Britan.

by JustJen May 13, 2005

fly tipping

A British phrase describing the act of dumping waste or trash illegally

The contractor was fined for fly tipping the leftover building supplies in a field down the road

by tim2000 September 30, 2007

fly tipping

the act of creeping into a field at night when all the flies are sleeping whilst standing up, and pushing them over

"we went fly tipping last night, it was fucking safe as fuck!"

by Cpt Ash McCool April 1, 2009

fly tipping

A way of dumping work assigned to you on someone else.

I had lots to do but after a spot of fly tipping i've not got that much to do.

I was going home but my boss has come over and fly tipped me.

Right im off home, i've just fly tipped what was left on to the graduate we recruited.

by matthew ward August 11, 2006

Office fly-tipping

Discreetly depositing one's workplace detritus at different bins around the office. Reasons for doing so include smell of lunch remnants, lack of one's own bin, producing too much paper based waste, to annoy work colleagues, for spite.

Simon: What were you doing in payroll?
Will: I was office fly-tipping.
Simon: Teriyaki don?
Will: Yessir.

by SatMisc November 21, 2013