dribble

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  1. intransitive verb To flow or fall in drops or an unsteady stream; trickle: Water dribbled from the leaky faucet.
  2. intransitive verb To let saliva drip from the mouth; drool.
  3. intransitive verb Sports To dribble a ball or puck.

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  • Canty has the dribble, the rebounds (with 15 tonight), the floater, the three-pointer, and more than most defenses can handle. —  Greensboro Sports
  • Players who can beat their man off the dribble -- You don't necessarily need to be a great ball handler, because the idea is to open up enough space that help can't come without a penalty. —  A Sea Of Blue
  • Rafer Alston reached back to his streetballing days when he was known as "Skip to My Lou" on New York's hard courts with a nifty behind the back dribble, then spinning past James and finishing with a layup. —  Statesman - AP Sports
  • "Skip to My Lou" on New York's hard courts with a nifty behind the back dribble, then spinning past James and finishing with a layup. —  WVEC Top Stories
  • Randolph backs him in with a right-handed dribble, then spins baseline with a pretty move - but he misses the hook. —  ClipperBlog.com Blog for the Los Angeles NBA Clippers Fans
 

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trickle ·  gobbet ·  slurp ·  drip ·  fleck ·  drool ·  droplet ·  gurgle ·  gob ·  rivulet ·  alkalinity ·  smear

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dribble:   dribbled
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Frequentative of obsolete drib, alteration of drip.

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  1. Formerly also drible; for *dripple (= Low German drippeln), freq. of drip: see drip, and cf. drib.
  2. from dribble, v.
  3. A variant of drivel by confusion with dribble. Cf. drabble.
 

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/ˈdrɪbl/
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