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- noun Plural form of
drip .
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Examples
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Now both of us needs to put eye drops, * drips drips*
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As far as I understand it, that word is only offensive to Whites when it drips from the lips of non-Black folk.
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After that Grandfather only hears the hiss of his belt being drawn through its loops as blood chokes his throat and drips from the tip of his bare, twitching foot.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum 2009
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We'd started by reading it to him in drips and drabs before bed, but he finally got frustrated with how slowly that was happening that he picked the book up and re-started at the beginning and read straight through to the end in two days.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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He is sprinkling the white powder over the linge sale, * which drips from the centuries-old stone below.
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The students arrived in drips and drabs all day with various horror stories of missed planes, missing visas, missing luggage and long flights.
Archive 2009-07-01 HayleyM 2009
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But those philosophies are being expressed in drips and drabs.
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB 2009
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He is sprinkling the white powder over the linge sale, * which drips from the centuries-old stone below.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Oh, I dream of a deep inset wide windowseat, with mullioned windows that the rain drips down and makes pretty patterns on and which open outwards so I can dangle my legs in summer.
Angels' Pawn is out! Psst...something cool in the post [Edited] Nalini Singh 2009
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He is sprinkling the white powder over the linge sale, * which drips from the centuries old stone below.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
GHibbs commented on the word drips
3rd person singular of the verb to drip 'the tap drips'.
August 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word drips
I wiped up the tap drips with a sponge.
September 1, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word drips
I think drip shows up on one of the name-calling lists.
September 1, 2011