drips

Noun

drip (countable and uncountable, plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.
   • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
   • the light drip of the suspended oar1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVI
3. 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.
4. (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
   • He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
5. That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
6. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
   • His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.

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