‘Would you please fix the ____ in that faucet? It’s driving me nuts!’

verb

1. To let fall in drops

   "a brush dripping paint"

2. To let out or seem to spill copiously

   "her voice dripping sarcasm"

3. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid

   "wet clothes dripping onto the floor"

4. To overflow with or as if with moisture

   "stories dripping with pop-culture references"

5. To fall in or as if in drops

   "let the excess drip off"

6. To waft or pass gently

noun

1. A part of a cornice or other member that projects to throw off rainwater
2. A falling in drops

   "a constant drip of water from the leaky faucet"

3. Liquid that falls, overflows, or is extruded in drops

   "a pan to catch drips"

4. The sound made by or as if by falling drops

   "heard a drip"

5. A device for the administration of a fluid at a slow rate especially into a vein

   "A drip needle is often inserted at the beginning of a stay in the ward and, as one might expect, the attachment to a drip has salient implications for the way in which the hospital stay is experienced."

6. A dull or unattractive person

   "… [Charles Dickens' character] David Copperfield, in manhood, is not an especially interesting person. (“He's such a drip,” commented a friend of mine.)"

7. A fashionable style or look

   "Now I just need to get her an oversized graphic tee and some slick joggers to complete her drip."

adjective

1. Of, relating to, or being coffee made by letting boiling water drip slowly through finely ground coffee

   "drip coffee"

abbreviation

1. Dividend reinvestment plan

verb

1. To dry with few or no wrinkles when hung wet
2. To hang (something wet, such as wet clothing) to drip-dry

adjective

1. Made of a washable fabric that drip-dries

noun

1. Flow of mucous secretion from the posterior part of the nasal cavity onto the wall of the pharynx occurring usually as a chronic accompaniment of an allergic state