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verb (used without object)
1.
to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
2.
to come, go, or pass bit by bit, slowly, or irregularly: The guests trickled out of the room.
verb (used with object)
3.
to cause to trickle.
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Trickling
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noun
4.
a trickling flow or stream.
5.
a small, slow, or irregular quantity of anything coming, going, or proceeding: a trickle of visitors throughout the day.
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Word Origin & History
trickle
late 14c., possibly an aphetic variant of stricklen "to trickle," a frequentative form of striken "to flow, move" (see strike). The noun is 1580, from the verb. Trickle-down as an adjectival phrase in an economic sense first recorded 1944; the image had been in use at least since Teddy Roosevelt.
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