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Dribble   /drˈɪbəl/   Listen
noun
Dribble  n.  
1.
A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. (Colloq.)
2.
An act of dribbling (2) a ball.


verb
Dribble  v. t.  
1.
To let fall in drops. "Let the cook... dribble it all the way upstairs."
2.
In basketball and various other games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.


Dribble  v. i.  (past & past part. dribbled; pres. part. dribbing)  
1.
To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
2.
To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
3.
To fall weakly and slowly. Perhaps an error for dribbing. (Obs.) "The dribbling dart of love."
4.
In basketball, football and similar games, to dribble (2) the ball.
5.
To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Dribble" Quotes from Famous Books



... islands, sometimes; in a man, they show what stuff is in him. It would be better to commit a deadly crime than to dribble out a ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... plunger comes to a reluctant and weary stop, as the roller of the lifter rounds the nose of the cam. When the movement does finally end, the injection does not necessarily stop, as the compressed fuel in the injection pipe is still left to dribble miserably into the combustion chamber. To minimize this defect, the designer has placed the pump and injector together ...
— The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 • Robert B. Meyer
... day thought on the health-imparting exercise it afforded, and had the necessary funds raised to form a club. The artisans, too, from the dusky foundry, the engineer shop, and the factory, soon began to dribble about. The young ones, and even the seniors themselves, had many a collision with mother earth ere they could rely on keeping their pins with any degree of accuracy, and it was rare fun to see a bearded man turning a somersault ...
— Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches • David Drummond Bone
... landed through the madness of the Dyea beach, congested with thousand-pound outfits of thousands of men. This immense mass of luggage and food, flung ashore in mountains by the steamers, was beginning slowly to dribble up the Dyea Valley and across Chilkoot. It was a portage of twenty-eight miles, and could be accomplished only on the backs of men. Despite the fact that the Indian packers had jumped the freight from eight cents a pound to forty, they were swamped with the work, and it was plain that winter would ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... wee bit heap o' leaves and stibble Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou's turned out for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, And cranreuch cauld! ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various


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