Crossword-Solution: DRIBBLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Dribble | v. i. | To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves. |
| Dribble | v. i. | To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel. |
| Dribble | v. i. | To fall weakly and slowly. |
| Dribble | v. t. | To let fall in drops. |
| Dribble | n. | A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| DRIBBLE | anagram | DIBBLER |
We have 73 clues for the answer “DRIBBLE”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "DRIBBLE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
16 +2
New Suggestion for "DRIBBLE"
Related word tools
Sentences with DRIBBLE (5)
They will strike root in the leak of a flume, or the dribble of an overfull bank, coaxing the water beyond its appointed bounds.
They felt the pride of their onward movement when the remainder of the army seemed trying to dribble down this road.
There’s no pleasure i’ living if you’re to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
The 'Dribble' was, when with an air of easy but ingenious motion, the caster poured, as it were, the dice on the board--when, if he happened to be an old practitioner, he might suddenly cog with his fore-finger one of the cubes.
The floor canvas was muddy from the tramping of many feet bringing in the constant dribble of casualties from the line.
Quotes with DRIBBLE (3)
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite forheaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is notthe X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality wedrink in every night.
What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You've been laughing at us all your life. Corinthians. Mama. Me. Using us, ordering us, and judging us: how we cook your food; how we keep your house. But now, all of a sudden, you have Corinthians' welfare at heart and break her up from a man you don't approve of. Who are you to approve or disapprove anybody or anything? I was breath…
In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You might start quoting your mother, out loud and with conviction. You might lose your friends to the most uninspired of deaths. You might one day wake up and find yourself teaching at a community college; there will have been nothing to warn you. You might say things to your students …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).