drip
verb
°To fall one drop at a time.
"Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!"
°To leak slowly.
"Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?"
noun
°A drop of a liquid.
"I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa."
°(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
"He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip."
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