a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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.
mod. weak; ineffective; undesirable. : Bob can be so drippy without even trying.
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
Eyes swollen and drippy to a grotesque level of disgusting hideousness.
All this water gave the previously hot and dry climate a humid and drippy subtropical feel.
Walk through your house and listen for running toilets and look for drippy faucets.
So, now he's gone past the bitterness character, and straight to the drippy romance.
The last is of the drippy scion of the once-formidable founding family, who fails even to announce the paper's closure properly.
And after he swam a little while he climbed out of the water, and he was all drippy wet.
On misty, drippy evenings following rainfall, the insects may not readily display.
Of course, if you have a dungeon you must have skulls, drippy waxy candles and snakes.
Kids would have to pack drippy citrus into their lunch boxes.
Symptoms of the sniffles include sneezing, hacking, wheezing and drippy eyes and nose.