drip

/dɹɪp/

verb

  1. 1

    To fall one drop at a time.

    Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
  2. 2

    To leak slowly.

    Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
  3. 3

    To let fall in drops.

    After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
  4. 4

    (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

    The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
  5. 5

    (of the weather) To rain lightly.

    The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
  6. 6

    To be wet, to be soaked.

  7. 7

    To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

noun

  1. 1

    A drop of a liquid.

    I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  2. 2

    A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

  3. 3

    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.
  4. 4

    A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

    He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
  5. 5

    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.

noun

  1. 1

    A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

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