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tippee

 
 
/tɪˈpiː/ noun [C] FINANCE, LAW

Definition

a person who advises others to buy or sell shares of a particular company after having received information, often illegally, from someone involved with the company: The Commission charged that he was a "tippee" of the insider, and in turn tipped his clients.
(Definition of tippee noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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