• Dipped

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /dɪpt/

    Origin

    From dip + -ed.

    Verb

    dipped
    1. dipped

      (past of dip)

    Full definition of dipped

    Adjective

    dipped

    1. That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
    2. Of headlights: lowered.
    3. (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
      • 1705, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:The Lawyers ... Opposed all Registers, that Cheats
        Might make more Work with dipt Estates ....
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