drip

UK /dɹɪp/ US /dɹɪp/
noun 7verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

To fall one drop at a time.

Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!

2

To leak slowly.

Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?

3

To let fall in drops.

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.

4

To have a superabundance of (something).

The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.

The duchess was dripping with jewels.

5

To rain lightly; to drizzle.

The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.

noun

1

A drop of a liquid.

I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

I need a bucket to catch the drips.

2

A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

the light drip of the suspended oar

3

An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4

A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

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.

5

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.

noun

1

Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)

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