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To fall one drop at a time.

Example: Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!

To leak slowly.

Example: Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?

To let fall in drops.

Example: After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.

(usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

Example: The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.

A drop of a liquid.

Example: I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

Example: He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

Example: He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.