Definitions for dropper

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dropper drop·per

Spelling: [drop-er]

IPA: /ˈdrɒp ər/

Dropper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in dropper (deopprr).

Definitions for dropper

noun

1. a person or thing that drops.
2. a glass tube with a hollow rubber bulb at one end and a small opening at the other, for drawing in a liquid and expelling it in drops; medicine dropper.
3. a short-haired dog that is a cross between a pointer and a setter.

Origin of dropper

First recorded in 1690-1700; drop + -er¹

Examples for dropper

The tear of Sensibility must not be dropped in a manner giving real pain to the dropper.

Whether he distinguished himself as a "dropper," or ever beat the record time in the "Crick" run, I do not know.

The dropper was to be filled with corn, and, thus accoutred, he was ready for doing duty in the newly ploughed field.

Who was the indiscreet eave's-dropper or tale-bearer that gave your lordship the hint concerning this business?

Put on a dropper of some kind, say a caperer, as a second chance.

With a dropper he sucked up a bit of the liquid from the test-tube.

This is a good fly throughout a clear day, used as a dropper with the foregoing fly, and wren tail.

"Take them off and shake 'em," suggested the dropper of the gum.

I saw its head as it rose for my dropper, struck, and hooked the fish.

Be sure to procure a dropper that has the point turned at right angles to the body.