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You can make 8 words from drip according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of drip

drip rdip dirp idrp ridp irdp drpi rdpi dpri pdri rpdi prdi dipr idpr dpir pdir ipdr pidr ripd irpd rpid prid iprd pird

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word drip. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in drip.

Definitions and meaning of drip

drip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

(style, swagger): Compare the verb sense "to have a superabundance of valuable things".

Noun

drip (countable and uncountable, plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

4. (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
6. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
   • 2019, Diego Pedraza, "Dragon Fashion", Deadline (Middle College High School, Stockton, CA), Volume 5, Issue 5, page 4:

     Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:drip.

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Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English drip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drip/

Noun

drip m

1. (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)

Swedish

Noun

drip c

1. (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)

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References

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