Pronunciations (2)
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/dɪpt/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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dɪpt
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Adjective
That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
Of headlights: lowered.
Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
Usage- Archaic
- Colloquial
- Examples
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The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
Estcombe is dipped: and of the money I raised, there is no more at the agent's than I have lost in a night at Quinze!
Adjective
having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)
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