dripping
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of dripping
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; drip, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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López declared of the bulging cholesterol bomb, typically dripping in hot sauce.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a community, an aesthetic, an era and a movement, dripping with the kind of waviness that demands your attention.
From Los Angeles Times
Unusually for a doc, Peck marshals an unforgettable vocal performance — from British actor Damian Lewis, who narrates the movie as Orwell, his every line dripping with contempt for authoritarianism.
From Los Angeles Times
He’s leaning back—hands on hips—looking disgustedly up at the dripping streak of ketchup across the cafeteria’s tiled ceiling.
From Literature
It had the right type of rock, a heap leach pad and solvent-extraction electrowinning plant, where the copper dripping in solution from the ore is plated on cathodes.
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