dripverb
uk/drɪp/us/drɪp/-pp-[ I or T ] If a liquid drips, it falls in drops, or you make it fall in drops:
Water dripped down the wall.
She dripped paint on the carpet.
[ I ] to produce drops of liquid:
Watch out - the candle's dripping.
Idiom(s)
be dripping with sth
dripnoun
uk/drɪp/us/drɪp/drip noun (LIQUID)
[ C ] a drop of liquid:
drips of paint/sweat
[ S ] the sound or action of liquid falling in drops:
All I could hear was the drip of the rain from the roof.
[ C ] US also IV a method of slowly giving someone liquid medicine or food through a tube into a vein, or a piece of equipment for doing this:
He was on a drip for three days.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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Medical & surgical equipment
drip noun (PERSON)
[ C ] informal disapproving a boring person without a strong character:
Her husband is such a drip.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People who are boring and old-fashioned
- bore
- Colonel Blimp
- crashing bore
- dinosaur
- fogey
- fossil
- fuddy-duddy
- has-been
- killjoy
- Luddite
- party pooper
- saddo
- spod
- spoilsport
- square
- stick-in-the-mud
- stuffed shirt
- yawn
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Idiom(s)
drip, drip(, drip)