Definition of "drip"

drip¹

/dɹɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped
1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
  Quotations
  Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
  c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch
  Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
  Quotations
  The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]
  1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s, page 21
  The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!
  2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

drip²

/dɹɪp/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural drips
1. A drop of a liquid.
2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  Quotations
  the light drip of the suspended oar
  1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], stanza LXXXVI
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
4. (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
  Quotations
  Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
  1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman)
5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
6. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
  Quotations
  Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
  2019, Diego Pedraza, "Dragon Fashion", Deadline (Middle College High School, Stockton, CA), Volume 5, Issue 5, page 4
  The cold weather can't stop your drip.
  2020 December, “Inside The Winter Chic”, in Brown Sugar Box, page 3
  Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.
  2021 June, “Handpicked Section”, in Syzygy Magazine, page 16

drip³

/dɹɪp/

noun
1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

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