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In some senses, drip is marked as derogatory, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To fall one drop at a time.
Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
To leak slowly.
Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
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.
To have a superabundance of (something).
The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess was dripping with jewels.
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
A drop of a liquid.
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.
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.
He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
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.
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
Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)