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dribble

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle. 2 A small amount of a liquid. 3 In sport, the act of dribbling. vb. 1 To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool 2 To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle 3 In various ball games, to run with the ball, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB down ▪ Rainwater dribbled down her temples and the back of her neck. ▪ Cold yoke dribbled down his chin. ▪ The windscreen was splattered with spittle which had dribbled down the glass and dried. out ▪ Bankers dislike ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dribble \Drib"ble\, v. t. To let fall in drops. Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. -- Swift. In basketball and various other games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.

Usage examples of dribble.

Glutamic acid, without which ammonia accumulates in the brain and kills, dribbled along the floor while they glared, and D-ribose, and D-2-deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, uracil, cytosine, thymine and 5-methyl cytosine without which no thing higher than a trilobite can pass on its shape and meaning to its next generation.

The day was marked by a dribble of bruised and battered agitators into the hospitals.

And now there was a full-size movie crew up here, based out of Vineland but apt to show up just about anyplace, prominent among whom, and already generating notable Thanatoid distress, was this clearly insane Mexican DEA guy, not only dropping but also picking up, dribbling, and scoring three-pointers with the name of Frenesi Gates.

Most often, it dribbled in unpredictably in cash payments made in small bills that she counted out in front of me, making me feel guilty and avaricious for each and every dollar I was collecting.

Liam accepted a cup of ale from Axel and drank thirstily, the pale liquid dribbling down his chin to stain his shirt.

Most stickies simply had a gaping buccal orifice, fringed with ragged porcine hairs, that dribbled wetly.

She pushed up her sleeves, rinsing hands and forearms, flapped the open lapels of her cotte hardie and welcomed the dribble of cool water inside the heavy garment.

Crimson burned to orange, orange to dull gold, and in a golden glitter the sun came up, dribbling fierily over the waves in little splashes, as if someone had gone along and the light had spilled from her pail as she walked.

At last, by determination and luck, in that state where a dribble of seminal fluid has already appeared and control teeters in the balance, he acceded to her entrails.

The dribble that occurs at first excitement stains my clothing, but even it has the advantage of an odour superior to what I previously emitted when I had to eschew a bath.

Carp was walking steadily across blue-green vegetation that soaked up a last dribble of sunlight before digging down below-ground and hibernating until spring.

Billy kept fucking her until the last drops of jism dribbled from the head of his plunging prick.

Mala Fortuna solo knows what he managed to get out of him before Neep and Cleep pushed in beside them and shut the dribble down.

Hotch, who was still dribbling a nerf basketball against the backboard of his office door.

To accept the plan of Papagos, to which he constantly returned, of attempting to dribble our forces piecemeal up to Macedonian frontier.