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dipping out

dipping out is the present participle and gerund 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 dipping out

What is dipping out the present participle and gerund of?
Dipping out is the present participle and gerund of dip out.

Words near dipping out in the dictionary

  1. dipping one's finger in
  2. dipping one's pen in someone's inkwell
  3. dipping one's toe in
  4. dipping one's toe in the water
  5. dipping one's wick
  6. dipping out
  7. dipping sauce
  8. dipping sauces
  9. dipping stick
  10. dipping sticks
  11. dipping tank

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dipping 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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