drip

drip1 [ drıp ] verb

1. ) intransitive if a liquid drips, it falls in very small drops:

Red paint had dripped on the floor.

Sweat was dripping down his face.

a ) transitive if you drip a liquid, you make it fall in very small drops:

Drip some wax onto the paper to make a seal.

2. ) intransitive to produce small drops of liquid:

The faucet was dripping.

be dripping with something

to have a lot of a particular quality or thing:

a comment dripping with irony

She's always dripping with jewelry.

drip

drip 2 [ drıp ] noun

1. ) singular the sound or action of a liquid falling in drops:

All I could hear was the drip, drip of water.

a ) count one of the small drops of liquid that fall from something:

There were drips of blood on the floor.

2. ) count a piece of equipment used in a hospital for putting a liquid such as medicine directly into your body:

be on a drip: He was on a drip for two weeks after the accident.

3. ) count a small amount of something such as information that you get regularly:

a steady drip of data suggesting that the economy is improving

4. ) count INFORMAL someone who you think is very weak or boring