Drip | Mean of drip in English Dictionary
/ˈdrɪp/
- Verb
- to fall in drops
- Water dripped from a leak in the ceiling.
- Blood dripped down his leg from the cut.
- Hot wax dripped onto my fingers.
- to let drops of (a liquid) fall
- The pine trees dripped sap onto the cars.
- The kids dripped water all over the house.
- The faucet is dripping. [=water is dripping from the faucet]
- a dripping faucet
- His face was dripping with sweat. [=sweat was dripping from his face]
- The toast was dripping with butter.
- The kids were dripping wet.
- to have or show a large amount of something
- Her voice dripped with contempt/charm.
- She was dripping with diamonds. [=she was wearing a lot of diamonds]
- Noun
- a drop of liquid that falls from something
- Drips of water fell from a leak in the ceiling.
- the sound of liquid falling in drops
- We heard the drip of the rain.
- the steady drip, drip, drip of the faucet
- the act or action of falling in drops
- Water fell from the ceiling in a steady/slow drip.
- a device used in hospitals to pass fluid slowly through a tube into a patient's blood
- The doctor put the patient on a morphine drip to manage the pain.
- a dull and often weak person
- Don't invite that drip to your party!