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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



... the world has yet to hear it. Now, we cannot easily conceive Isaiah or Jeremiah hawking round his prophecies at the houses of publishers, or permitting a smart Yankee to syndicate them through the world, or even allowing popular magazines to dribble them out by monthly instalments. But the modern prophet has no housetop, and it is as difficult to imagine him moving his nation by voice alone as arranging with a local brother-seer to trumpet forth the great tidings simultaneously ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... The chalk was rough and shale-like. He dug knees and toes into it. There was a constant dribble of stuff away from beneath his feet, and once ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... swabbing from my cot, and dressed sitting on my big box. However, I got the leak stopped and cabin dried, and no harm done, as I had put everything up off the floor the night before, suspicious of a dribble which came in. Then my cot frame was broken by my cuddy boy and I lurching over against S-'s bunk, in taking it down. The carpenter has given me his own, and takes my broken one for himself. Board ship is a famous place for tempers. Being easily satisfied, I get all I want, and ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon
... heap o'leaves and stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd out for a' thy trouble, But house or hauld, To thole the winter's sleety dribble And cranreuch cauld. ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus
... activity of the body, and spent our lives doing all kinds of things in which there was no sense. Think of reading one or two morning and evening papers every day. To be sure we said there was nothing in them, but we used up our eyesight over them, and let a stream of silliness and scandal dribble through our minds. As ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith


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