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Definition of 'drip'Verb
( dripp)
To fall one drop at a time.
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To leak slowly.
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To let fall in drops.
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* (Jonathan Swift)
- Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
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To have a superabundance of valuable things.
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(of the weather) To rain lightly.
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To be wet, to be soaked.
Derived terms
* dripper
Noun
( en-noun)
A drop of a liquid.
- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
- He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip .
(colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip !
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
* Byron
- the light drip of the suspended oar
(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.
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Acronym
(Acronym)
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(finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing
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