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dripped

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drip

[drip] verb, dripped or dript, drip·ping, noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
2.
to fall in drops, as a liquid.
verb (used with object)
3.
to let fall in drops.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
noun
4.
an act of dripping.
5.
liquid that drips.
6.
the sound made by falling drops: the irritating drip of a faucet.
7.
Slang. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.
8.
(in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.
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9.
Architecture, Building Trades. any device, as a molding, for shedding rain water to keep it from running down a wall, falling onto the sill of an opening, etc.
10.
a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.
11.
Medicine/Medical. intravenous drip.
12.
Slang. maudlin sentimentality.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English dryppe, Old English dryppan; compare drop

non·drip, adjective


2. trickle, dribble, leak, sprinkle, drizzle.

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Word Origin & History

drip
c.1300, from M.Dan. drippe, from P.Gmc. *drup-, from PIE base *dhreub-. O.E. had related drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." Related: Dripped; dripping. The slang meaning "stupid, feeble, or dull person" is first recorded 1932.
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Medical Dictionary

drip (drĭp)
n.

  1. The process of forming and falling in drops.

  2. Moisture or liquid such as medication that falls in drops.

v. dripped, drip·ping, drips
To fall in drops.

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Slang Dictionary

drip definition


  1. n.
    an oaf; a nerd. : Bob is a drip, I guess, but he's harmless.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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