drips

/D R IH1 P S/

noun

1
A drop of a liquid.
“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.
“He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.”
4
A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
“He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!”
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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