Drip
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪp
Full definition of drip
Verb
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
- Jonathan SwiftWhich from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 8, Philander went into the next room...and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.The duchess was dripping with jewels.
- (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
Derived terms
Noun
drip
(plural drips)- A drop of a liquid.I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
- (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- Byronthe light drip of the suspended oar
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.