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Drip

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
dɹɪp

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
    alt-of
  2. A drop of a liquid.
  3. Acronym of dividend reinvestment plan or dividend reinvestment program.
  4. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  5. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
  6. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
  7. 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.
  8. Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.

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Examples

“I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.”
“I need a bucket to catch the drips.”
the light drip of the suspended oar
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!”
Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointlessand, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.”
His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.”
Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]”
The cold weather can't stop your drip.”
Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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