I nosed around a bit, though, and I think they got a phone tip.

These jokers got a phone tip to check out the Swansons'.

The police had received dozens of phone tips.

The police were led to the suspect by a phone tip from his mother.

The station had received an anonymous phone tip about Moore's location.

He said that the police were led to the location by an anonymous phone tip.

The phone tip said it was in here.

That phone tip of Dad's must have been a fake!

Mr. Hardy explained that he had just received another anonymous phone tip.

The police came, found nothing, then made a voiceprint on the phone tip, and arrested the pusher for giving false information to the authorities.