drip

present singular third person drips · participle present dripping · participle past dripped · past dripped

1. intransitiveTo fall one drop at a time.

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

2. intransitiveTo leak slowly.

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

3. transitiveTo let fall in drops.

   My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.

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   After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.

   c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.

   Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

4. intransitiveusuallyTo have a superabundance of (something).

   The duchess was dripping with jewels.

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

   Although Yultes' face was the perfect mask of neutrality, his tone dripped with contempt.

   2017, Claudie Arseneault, City of Strife, →ISBN

5. impersonalTo rain lightly; to drizzle.

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

6. intransitiveTo be wet, to be soaked.
7. UKintransitiveslanggovernmentTo whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

   The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s, page 21

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   The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

   2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

8. slangstativeBe impressive or attractive.

   I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do. And one of these days, I'm gon' get dressed and drip all over you.

   2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog

plural drips

1. countableuncountableA drop of a liquid.

   I need a bucket to catch the drips.

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

2. countableuncountableA falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

   the light drip of the suspended oar

   1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVI

3. countableuncountablemedicineAn 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. colloquialcountablederogatoryuncountableA limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

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

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   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.

   1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman)

5. countableuncountablearchitectureThat part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
6. slanguncountableStyle; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.

   His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.

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   Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]

   2019, Diego Pedraza, "Dragon Fashion", Deadline (Middle College High School, Stockton, CA), Volume 5, Issue 5, page 4

   The cold weather can't stop your drip.

   2020 December, “Inside The Winter Chic”, in Brown Sugar Box, page 3

   Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.

   2021 June, “Handpicked Section”, in Syzygy Magazine, page 16

plural drips

1. businessAlternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)

plural DRIPs

1. abbreviationacronymbusinessAcronym of dividend reinvestment plan or dividend reinvestment program.