What is "dribs"

Usage examples of "dribs".

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.

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.