drip
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Is drip a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of drip?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.Examples: "Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!"intransitive
2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.Examples: "Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?"intransitive
3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.Examples: "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."; "c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain."transitive
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).Examples: "The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters."; "The duchess was dripping with jewels."intransitiveusually
5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.Examples: "The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet."intransitive
6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.Examples: "He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip."countableuncountable
2. (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.Examples: "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."colloquialcountablederogatoryuncountable
3. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.countableuncountable
4. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.Examples: "His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt."; "Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]"; "The cold weather can't stop your drip."slanguncountable
noun (English)
1. (finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)alt-of
noun (English)
1. (finance) Acronym of dividend reinvestment plan or dividend reinvestment program.abbreviationacronymalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary