drip
IPA: drˈɪp
noun
- A drop of a liquid.
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (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.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
- (finance) Acronym of dividend reinvestment plan or dividend reinvestment program.
verb
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
- (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
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Examples of "drip" in Sentences
- HARDY: We're in our -- what we call the drip room.
- *skrimble rustle “owch” drip drip drip*… I.V alkahal gowin rite in..
- There was no sound save that of the water -- _splash, splash, drip, drip_.
- *Drip drip drip* Oh nose — da blud haz leeked fru da ShamWow… Oh I feelz woooooooozeeeee……
- Be sure to distribute your fertilizer evenly around the edges of the plant's limbs or what we call the drip line.
- HARDY: We're in what we call the drip room, and this is where we cure all of our meats and cheeses and set aside some of our preserves.
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