dripping
Americannoun
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drippings
plural
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the act of something that drips.
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Often drippings.
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the liquid that drips.
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fat and juices exuded from meat in cooking, used for basting, for making gravy, or as a cooking fat.
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noun
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the fat exuded by roasting meat
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(often plural) liquid that falls in drops
adverb
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Etymology
Origin of dripping
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at drip, -ing 1
Vocabulary lists containing dripping
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“Artists come here from all over the world to be part of it, and there’s so much music dripping out of the honeycomb of this town that I’m in it. I’m in it neck-deep.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Look at those Watteau straps in the back, dripping with rhinestones and looping, swinging, amplifying the dynamics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
In her “wife school” series, Clark interviewed her new sister-in-law, Katie Voetberg, a prairie dress-clad podcast host and mother of six, about how to avoid being a “nagging wife” and a “constant dripping faucet.”
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
In testimonies from members, nurses reported how they had been left dripping in sweat from "head to toe" while seeing patients.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Will they open my pod hundreds of years later and find a babbling girl—green drool dripping from the side of my mouth?
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Rutte may have just been trying to flatter the notoriously narcissistic president, but Trump’s team lapped it up with the eagerness of a dog going after beef drippings.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
Cooking each addition in the sausage drippings, from the chicken to the vegetables, adds layers of flavor you cannot get otherwise.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2024
Once the fish is cooked, the drippings are transformed into a delicious sauce enriched with butter and fresh dill.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
It tasted pot-roasty, with the loin simmering in its own juice and the root veggies flavored with fat drippings — comfort food for this wet, dreary weather.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
The candle is just a straw-wrapped Chianti bottle with years of wax drippings down its neck.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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