Crossword clues for drib
drib
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drib \Drib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dribbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.] [Cf. Drip.] To do by little and little; as:
To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
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To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
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To lead along step by step; to entice.
With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. -- Dryden.
Drib \Drib\, v. t. & i. (Archery)
To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.]
--Sir P. Sidney.
Drib \Drib\, n.
A drop. [Obs.]
--Swift.a small portion or small amount of anything; -- used mostly in the phrase dribs and drabs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"drop," c.1730, Scottish, perhaps from dribble.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cut off; chop off. 2 (context transitive English) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin. 3 (context transitive English) To entice step by step. 4 To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle. 5 (context transitive archery English) To shoot directly at short range. 6 (context intransitive archery English) To shoot at a mark at short range. 7 (context transitive archery English) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. 8 (context transitive now chiefly UK dialectal English) To beat; thrash; drub. 9 (context transitive now chiefly UK dialectal English) To scold. 10 (context transitive now chiefly UK dialectal marbles English) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger. Etymology 2
n. (tcx obsolete English) A drop.
Usage examples of "drib".
Somebody at the Security Service was eager to let CIA know what was going on with the subject about which Langley clearly had some interest, and so whatever dribs and drabs of information came in were immediately dispatched to CIA, and thence to Fort Meade, which was scanning the ether waves for any resulting interest from the terrorist community around the world.
It was too weak and collapsed, so she and Judy had to ferry them up in dribs and drabs.
The children came out in dribs and drabs, and it was not until shortly after twenty past three that Nandira walked out of the school entrance, carrying her schoolbag in one hand and a book in the other.
Brigade must be husbanded, not frittered away by being committed to the battle in dribs and drabs.
Treadwell had also gotten out to his squad, and they had been returning to the office in dribs and drabs, catching up on things, getting the further notice that Batiste was personally okaying the overtime they needed to serve subpoenas, write their reports, do their work.
The zombies that trickled south from the decoy missions arrived in dribs and drabs and were easily burned from the air by dragon fire.
It was too weak and collapsed, so she and Judy had to ferry them up in dribs and drabs.
Brigade must be husbanded, not frittered away by being committed to the battle in dribs and drabs.
Anyone wanting power for its own sake gets only dribs and drabs, hard-won, harder to keep, and not worth having.
The dribs and drabs of liquor found their way to the comer of a basement storeroom, the private domain of Herbie Chandler.
He let the dribs and drabs of light soak into what was left of his mind, concentrating on what he saw, the words he heard.
Adiatunnus said, and then, "It's daft y'are, I'm thinking, when all we've seen is dribs and drabs of Gradi, no proper armies to 'em at all.
But there have also been people coming in by dribs and drabs, maybe as many as ten a day.
I didn't have six sisters without picking up some dribs and drabs of obstetrics!
Clear drops of liquid, its venom, I guess, dribbed out and scorched the concrete.