Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective bending downward due to lack of tautness; -- of lines.
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- adjective Tending to
droop ;sagging ;wilting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
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Examples
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The suits might have fit them once, but now Ted's was split across his gut, while Louise's hung in droopy folds like a sad curtain.
Babies Gary Moshimer 2010
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“That was pathetic,” Ian says, referring to the droopy base hit.
Water Witches Chris Bohjalian 1995
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He's cute in a kind of droopy dog, bassett hound way.
Mickey Kaus asks "Does she know the guy?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Scientists were selectively breeding the foxes to be tame but suddenly found their tamest foxes had developed many of the traits found in dogs-- such as droopy ears, strange coat colors, decreased skull size in comparison to the wild-type, a decrease in tooth size and an overall reduction of the entire masticatory bone structure.
Because when it comes down to it, we're all Russian foxes, my friend. Kosmo 2008
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Women need to be much kinder and forgiving to themselves and banish certain words from their vocabularies, such as droopy and ugly.
the new beauty secrets Laura Mercier 2006
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The tree you see is a Eucalyptus, so it has this kind of "droopy" look to it, a little alien to Northern Hemisphere eyes, only because the tree grows everywhere there.
Solstice.... Zillabob 2006
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The tree you see is a Eucalyptus, so it has this kind of "droopy" look to it, a little alien to Northern Hemisphere eyes, only because the tree grows everywhere there.
Archive 2006-12-01 Zillabob 2006
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Sophie Reade got 'droopy' boobs fixed after winning Big Brother entry
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Sophie Reade got 'droopy' boobs fixed after winning Big Brother entry LONDON - Big Brother star Sophie Reade went under the knife to fix her breasts as soon as she heard she was in the show, according to reports.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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Sophie Reade got 'droopy' boobs fixed after winning Big Brother entry LONDON - Big Brother star Sophie Reade went under the knife to fix her breasts as soon as she heard she was in the show, according to reports.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
yarb commented on the word droopy
& we dream sexy
but we screw droopy...
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983
July 1, 2008