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Dribble   /drˈɪbəl/   Listen
noun
Dribble  n.  
1.
A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. (Colloq.)
2.
An act of dribbling (2) a ball.


verb
Dribble  v. t.  
1.
To let fall in drops. "Let the cook... dribble it all the way upstairs."
2.
In basketball and various other games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.


Dribble  v. i.  (past & past part. dribbled; pres. part. dribbing)  
1.
To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
2.
To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
3.
To fall weakly and slowly. Perhaps an error for dribbing. (Obs.) "The dribbling dart of love."
4.
In basketball, football and similar games, to dribble (2) the ball.
5.
To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.





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"Dribble" Quotes from Famous Books



... away too?" I suggested grimly. She was silent. I bent forward. "Wouldn't you like him to dribble into the great flood?" ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke
... by some such lounger as yourself, or a passenger left by the last boat or "too previous" for the next. Well for you if you are sufficiently respectable to pass muster with the official whose duty it is to see that no one secures a day's lodging for two cents. There is a slow dribble of wayfarers, who seldom spend their time in the dismal and dingy waiting-room unless in very cold weather or to stand guard over their parcels which they have piled upon the seats. But all at once (especially if the next boat is to connect with some train on the other side) you observe a ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... not half as easy to write a letter as when you've nothing at all to say, and must make up for lack of matter by weaving phrases? Now, when I'm suffering from a determination of too many words to my pen, they all run together in a torrent, and I don't know how to make them dribble singly to a beginning. ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... every atom of his rarebit, he absorbed every drop of the moisture in the teapot, so that when she shook it and shook it, and then tried to pour something from it, there was no slightest dribble at the spout. But they lingered, talking and laughing, and perhaps they might never have left the place if the hard handmaiden who had brought the tea-tray had not first tried putting her head in at the swing-door ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells
... o' leaves and stibble Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou's turned out for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, And cranreuch cauld! ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various


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