Crossword-Solution: DRIBS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DRIBS | anagram | BIRDS |
We have 22 clues for the answer “DRIBS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Drabs' companions | 1 answer |
| __ and drabs | 1 answer |
| Squeezed-out bits | 1 answer |
| Partners of drabs | 1 answer |
| Partner of drabs | 1 answer |
| Leftover amounts | 1 answer |
| Insignificant bits | 1 answer |
| In ___ and drabs | 1 answer |
| In __ and drabs (sporadically) | 1 answer |
| Drabs partners | 1 answer |
| Companion of drabs | 1 answer |
| Bitty pieces | 2 answers |
| Minuscule quantity | 2 answers |
| Negligible amounts | 3 answers |
| Minute quantities | 4 answers |
| Little bits | 9 answers |
| BITS PARTNER | 10 answers |
| Small bits | 11 answers |
| Bits and pieces | 12 answers |
| Tiny amounts | 13 answers |
| Small amounts | 16 answers |
| __-Bits | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DRIBS (5)
Thereafter it was dribs and drabs of this sort, until one morning Carrie suddenly remembered that she would not be back until close to dinner time.
And if I had one more good nip, I'd say, which Heaven forbid, that you fellows are asking more of the Lord by expecting Him to save your shrivelled selfish little souls from hell-fire because of your squeeze-penny charities, than you would be asking by expecting Him to keep the poor from becoming paupers by the dribs you give them.
Even the bones on which meat has been cooked have some little dribs of gelatin and fat in them, and these are stewed under pressure until there is nothing left in them of the gelatin, of which they now make the little capsules in which the druggist puts the medicine whose taste we don't just fancy, and fats which go to the soap-maker for the want of a better destination.
Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs, And beek the house baith butt and ben; That mutchkin stoup it hauds but dribs, Then let's get in the tappit hen.
The tea drinking has done a great deal in bringing this nation into the state of misery in which it now is; and the tea drinking, which is carried on by "dribs" and "drabs;" by pence and farthings going out at a time; this miserable practice has been gradually introduced by the growing weight of the taxes on malt and on hops, and by the everlasting penury amongst the labourers, occasioned by the paper-money.
Quotes with DRIBS (2)
I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels.
And at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes, have you ever wondered why we say fiddle-faddle and not faddle- fiddle? Why is it ping-pong and pitter-patter rather than pong-ping and patter-pitter? Why dribs and drabs, rather than vice versa? Why can't a kitchen be span and spic? Whence riff-raff, mish-mash, flim-flam, chit-chat, tit for tat, knick-knack, zig-zag, sing-song, ding-dong, King Kong, criss-cross, shilly-shally, see-saw, hee-haw, flip-flop, hippity…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 36 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).