Definitions for drip

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Spelling: [drip]

IPA: /drɪp/

Drip is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in drip (dipr).

Definitions for drip

noun

1. an act of dripping.
2. liquid that drips.
3. the sound made by falling drops:
4. Slang. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.
5. (in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.
6. Architecture, Building Trades. any device, as a molding, for shedding rain water to keep it from running down a wall, falling onto the sill of an opening, etc.
7. a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.
8. Medicine/Medical. intravenous drip.
9. Slang. maudlin sentimentality.

verb (used with object)

1. to let fall in drops.

verb (used without object)

1. to let drops fall; shed drops:
2. to fall in drops, as a liquid.

Origin of drip

before 1000; Middle English dryppe, Old English dryppan; cf. drop

Examples for drip

The artist is allegedly pictured spraying a wall with black paint to create a "drip effect," according to the photographer.

However, experts are saying there is no danger to mothe ror unborn child provided fluids and nutrients can be provided by a drip.

Mixner would insert it via an IV and hold his friend until the drip was completed.

The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.

On the other hand, he had told her to keep in the dry, and the porch was beginning to drip.

But as one Republican consultant put it, “There is a drip drip.”

Lead acid cells could leak acid, which might drip out of the radio cabinet onto your lovely Persian rug.

Mingling with these is the pleasant drip, drip of the falling water.

The only sound to be heard was the drip of the chicken juice falling into the pan.

The drip of the fog from the eaves was the only break in the stillness.