1. s. A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
2. s. One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
The dropper left the suitcase with the bomb next to the garbage can.
3. s. (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
4. s. (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
5. s. (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
6. s. A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
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1. v. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
2. v. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
3. v. To let fall in drops.
After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
4. v. (intransitive usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess was dripping with jewels.
5. v. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
6. v. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. s. A drop of a liquid.
I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
8. s. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
9. s. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
10. s. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
11. s. (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.
12. s. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
