drip

  • verb (dripped, dripping) fall or let fall in small drops of liquid.

  • noun 1 a small drop of a liquid. 2 an apparatus which slowly passes fluid, nutrients, or drugs into a patient’s body intravenously. 3 informal a weak and ineffectual person. 4 Architecture a projection which is channelled to prevent rain from running down the wall below.

  — ORIGIN Old English, related to DROP.

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