portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
tip — Eugene (Gladstone) 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.