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Drip
1. A drop of liquid. Put a drop of that medicine in each eye.
2. To leak slowly. The blood dripped and dripped until he died.
3. To put a small amount of liquid on something, drop by drop. Drip some
chocolate on the ice cream for me.
4. A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person. He was just a
drip.
5. To fall one drop at a time. Listening to the facet drip that night was
irritating.
6. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases
drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip). The nurse put a drip
into the patients arm.
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