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dipped out

dipped out is the simple past and past participle of dip out.

Meaning of dip out

Verb

dip out (third-person singular simple present dips out, present participle dipping out, simple past and past participle dipped out)

  1. (informal) To leave a place without informing anyone.
  2. To miss out on seeing a bird, especially one that is rare or difficult to observe.
    • That was how I dipped out on a Tree Pipit! Which, of course, balanced up the stringy Hawfinch, so fair enough.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 27

Questions about dipped out

What is dipped out the simple past and past participle of?
Dipped out is the simple past and past participle of dip out.

Words near dipped out in the dictionary

  1. dipped one's finger in
  2. dipped one's pen in someone's inkwell
  3. dipped one's toe in
  4. dipped one's toe in the water
  5. dipped one's wick
  6. dipped out
  7. dippedst
  8. Dippel's oil
  9. dipper
  10. dipper well
  11. dipper wells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dipped out (page history and authors); dip out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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