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HARDY: We're in our -- what we call the drip room.

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  1. intransitive verb To fall in drops: Water is dripping from that leaky faucet.
  2. intransitive verb To shed drops: an umbrella that is dripping all over the floor.
  3. intransitive verb To ooze or be saturated with or as if with liquid: a speech that dripped with sarcasm.
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  • At once I heard a drip, drip, drip, and, calling for a light, soon discovered that the bed and floor were bloody. —  Memories
  • Then he heard a great cry from inside the temple - Riverwind. —  Dragons of Autumn Twilight
  • The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall -- drip, drip, drip -- upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night. —  Bleak House
  • The rain is ever falling -- drip, drip, drip -- by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace - pavement, the Ghost's Walk. —  Bleak House
  • HARDY: We're in our -- what we call the drip room. —  CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008
 

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trickle ·  drizzle ·  splash ·  gurgle ·  patter ·  droplet ·  dribble ·  rivulet ·  smear ·  plash ·  thud ·  throb
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English drippen; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English dryppen (rare), from Anglo-Saxon dryppan (preterit drypte, imperative dryp; also drypian, preterit *drypede, imperative drype), cause to drop, let fall (= Swedish drypa = Danish dryppe, drip), a causative verb associated with the rarer secondary forms dropian (dial. drupian; preterit dropede, dial. drupede) and droppan (preterit *dropte), whence English drop, v., from dreópan, past participle *dropen, preterit *dreáp, plural *drupon (occurring, if at all, only in uncertain passages, but no doubt once existent), Middle English drepen, drop, fall, = Old Saxon driopan (preterit drōp) = OFries. driapa = Dutch druipen = Old High German triufan, German triefen (preterit troff) = Icelandic drjūpa (preterit draup), drop, drip. See drop, and cf. drib, v., dribble.
  2. from Middle English dryppe, later drippe = Danish dryp, a drop: see drop, n. In the other senses from the verb. Cf. drib, n.
 

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