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Meaning of drips and drabs

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

drips

noun

Definitions

  1. A drop of a liquid.

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

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

  3. 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.

  4. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

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