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drib

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈdɹɪb/

Definition of drib

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To cut off; chop off.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To cut off; chop off.
  2. (transitive)To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
  3. (transitive)To entice step by step.
    “With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.”
  4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
    “He who drives their bargains dribs a part.”
  5. (transitive)To shoot directly at short range.
  6. (intransitive)To shoot at a mark at short range.
  7. (transitive)To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
    “Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]”
  8. (British, dialectal, transitive)To beat; thrash; drub.
  9. (British, dialectal, transitive)To scold.
  10. (British, dialectal, transitive)To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

noun

  1. (obsolete)A drop.
    “squandering his money in dribs to the poor”

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Etymology

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

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