(~s, ~ping, ~ped)
1.
When liquid ~s somewhere, or you ~ it somewhere, it falls in individual small drops.
Sit your child forward and let the blood ~ into a tissue or on to the floor...
Amid the trees the sea mist was ~ping...
The children kept ~ping Coke on the carpets.
VERB: V prep/adv, V, V n prep/adv
2.
When something ~s, drops of liquid fall from it.
A tap in the kitchen was ~ping...
Lou was ~ping with perspiration...
He was holding a cloth that ~ped pink drops upon the floor.
VERB: V, V with n, V n
3.
A ~ is a small individual drop of a liquid.
Drips of water rolled down the trousers of his uniform.
N-COUNT
4.
A ~ is a piece of medical equipment by which a liquid is slowly passed through a tube into a patient’s blood.
I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a ~.
N-COUNT
5.
If you say that something is ~ping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing. (LITERARY)
They were dazed by window displays ~ping with diamonds and furs...
VERB: usu cont, V with n
6.
see also ~-dry , ~ping