Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈdɹɪp/
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[ˈd̠ɹ̠̈˔ɪp]
Verb
To fall one drop at a time.
Usage- Intransitive
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Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
To leak slowly.
Usage- Intransitive
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Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
To let fall in drops.
Usage- Transitive
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After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
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c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
To have a superabundance of (something).
Usage- Intransitive
- usually
- with with
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The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess was dripping with jewels.
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Although Yultes' face was the perfect mask of neutrality, his tone dripped with contempt.
To rain lightly; to drizzle.
Usage- impersonal
- of the weather
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The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
To be wet, to be soaked.
Usage- Intransitive
To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
Usage- UK usage
- Intransitive
- Slang
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The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]
The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!
Be impressive or attractive.
Usage- Slang
- stative
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I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do. And one of these days, I'm gon' get dressed and drip all over you.
Noun
A drop of a liquid.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
I need a bucket to catch the drips.
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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the light drip of the suspended oar
An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
Usage- Colloquial
- Countable
- Derogatory
- Uncountable
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He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
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Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
Usage- Slang
- Uncountable
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His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.
Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
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The cold weather can't stop your drip.
Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.
Noun
flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
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there's a drip through the roof
the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
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the constant sound of dripping irritated him
(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
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Verb
fall in drops
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Water is dripping from the faucet
let or cause to fall in drops
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dribble oil into the mixture