drip: Meaning and Definition of

drip

1. to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
2. to fall in drops, as a liquid.

1. to let fall in drops.

1. an act of dripping.
2. liquid that drips.
3. the sound made by falling drops: the irritating drip of a faucet.
4. an unattractive, boring, or colorless person.
5. (in house painting) the accumulation of solidified drops of paint at the bottom of a painted surface.
6. any device, as a molding, for shedding rain water to keep it from running down a wall, falling onto the sill of an opening, etc.
7. a pipe for draining off condensed steam from a radiator, heat exchanger, etc.
8. See
9. maudlin sentimentality.