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Raredrips
The correct spelling is drips.
How to pronounce drips
noun
Say it like: Dri-ps
The correct spelling is drips. A drop of a liquid. For example: "I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa."
Usage Examples
“I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.”
“He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.”
“He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!”
Definition
noun
- 1.A drop of a liquid.
- 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.
- 4.A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- 5.That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
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