dipper

noun

a person or thing that dips.

a cuplike container with a long handle, used for dipping liquids.

( initial capital letter ) Astronomy.

Ornithology. Also called water ouzel. any small, stocky diving bird of the family Cinclidae, related to the thrushes, especially Cinclus aquaticus of Europe and C. mexicanus of western North America, having dense, oilyplumage and frequenting rapid streams and rivers.

South Midland and Southern U.S. a person who uses snuff.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English: diving bird; see dip, -er¹

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dipper (ˈdɪpə)

—n
1.	a ladle used for dipping
2.	Also called: water ouzel any aquatic songbird of the genus Cinclus and family Cinclidae, esp C. cinclus. They inhabit fast-flowing streams and resemble large wrens
3.	a slang word for pickpocket
4.	a person or thing that dips, such as the mechanism for directing car headlights downwards
5.	a small metal cup clipped onto a painter's palette for holding diluent or medium
6.	archaic an Anabaptist

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Slang Dictionary

dip definition

n.
a drunkard. (From dipsomaniac.) : Buy the dip a drink. That'll shut him up for a while.
n.
and dipper. a pickpocket. (Underworld.) : The dip tried a snatch, but the dupe turned around at the wrong time. , The cops picked up three dippers, working as a group, at the fairgrounds.
n.
a pinch or helping of snuff. : He took a dip just before he picked up the bat.
n.
a wad of chewing tobacco. : You could see he had a big dip in his cheek.
n.
an oaf; a jerk. (Probably from dipshit.) : Why are you acting like such a dip?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences

He nodded and went to the big earthenware jar, lifted the dipper and gulped down some cool water.

The skinny dipper sued and won because the cap was missing from the hole.

Drills rattled against granite, and the dipper buckets of gigantic excavators made crunching noises.

Now, you will not see these creatures bathing in a dipper of water.

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Slang

double-dipper

fanny-dipper

Matching Quote

"The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood."

-Henry David Thoreau

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