Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) (&lit dip into English) 2 (context transitive idiomatic English) To spend some of one's savings 3 (context transitive idiomatic English) To read parts of something.
WordNet
v. read selectively; read only certain passages from a text
Usage examples of "dip into".
I can't, I've got to go down and mix new dip into the tanks for tomorrow.
They had waited in ambush, but my dip into the arroyo had fooled them and now they came running.
You could use the rent, since you refuse to dip into Templeton capital to run this place.
They could not land-no landing gear-but they didn't dip into the atmosphere deeply enough for that to matter.
They could not landno landing gearbut they didn't dip into the atmosphere deeply enough for that to matter.
This was a perfect interim situation for her: she could afford to take her time looking for a new position anyway, but this way she wouldn't have to dip into her savings.
It was not an uncommon failing of naval officers to dip into their own former wardrooms.
This was the last and most dangerous phase of metachip assembly, when the blocks between the polyprinted connection patterns were burned off with a quick dip into vats of acid.
A few drops of cleaning solution rubbed vigorously into skin and hair, another agonizing dip into the liquid ice of the creek to rinse off, and she was through.