verb
    
    drips; dripped; dripping
    
    [no obj] :to fall in drops
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    to let drops of (a liquid) fall [+ obj]
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    If you are dripping wet you are so wet that drops of water are falling off you.
    
    
    
    [no obj] :to have or show a large amount of something - usually + with
    
    
    
    
    
    noun
    
    plural drips
    
    [count] :a drop of liquid that falls from something
    
    
    
    [singular] :the sound of liquid falling in drops
    
    
    
    
    
    [singular] :the act or action of falling in drops
    
    
    
    [count] medical :a device used in hospitals to pass fluid slowly through a tube into a patient's blood
    
    
    
    [count] informal + old-fashioned :a dull and often weak person