DRIP

drip

Noun

  1. A drop of a liquid.
    I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  2. 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.
  3. A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
    He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

Verb

  1. To fall one drop at a time.
  2. To leak slowly.
  3. To let fall in drops.
  4. To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  5. To rain lightly.
  6. To be wet, to be soaked.


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