1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, inRailway Magazine, page469:
They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in thedip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.
1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, inTrains Illustrated, pages177–178:
After a signal check at Darley Dale, on the third run, the Pacific mounted the long 1 in 100 at a steady 53-54 m.p.h. and attained a brief 60 m.p.h. in the shortdip before Monsal Dale.
Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line;slope;pitch.
The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
a.1786,[Richard Glover], “Book the Seventh”, in[Mrs. Halsey], editor,The Athenaid, a Poem,[…], volume I, London:[…]T[homas] Cadell,[…], published1787,→OCLC,page184, lines293–296:
With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / Thedip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence;[…]
Atank ortrough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.
1959, Frank Clune,Murders on Maunga-tapu, page10:
To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
A sauce for dipping.
This oniondip is just scrumptious.
(geology) Theangle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
by the feeble light of thedip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones
(dance) A move in many different styles ofpartner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which thefollower leans far to the side and is supported by theleader.
(bodybuilding) A gymnastic orbodybuilding exercise onparallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
2018 October 13, Alex Watt, “Everything I've Done That Made a Rich Old Lady with Opera Glasses Faint or a Monocle Fall Out of a Rich Guy's Eye”, inThe New Yorker[1], New York, N.Y.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2022-12-18:
Packed a lip full of beluga caviar after mistaking a tin for a can ofdip and then spat the juice into an urn that I thought was a sombre spittoon.
Hedipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.
(intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page516:
The engine's three headlights lit the way clearly, and when a train approached in the other direction, Driver Weggdipped his lights; the other driver politely replying by doing the same.
(transitive) To lower (aflag), particularly a nationalensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return asalute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
The sailor rushed to the flag hoist todip the flag in return.
To consumesnuff by placing apinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of thesnuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
(intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
Strata of rockdip.
2021 June 16, Dr David Turner, “The latest face of Gasworks Tunnel”, inRAIL, number933, page 34, photo caption:
The tunneldips approximately 15 metres below Regents Canal and has a rising gradient at its northern end of 1-in-107.
(transitive,dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with theleader as the subject noun and thefollower as the subject noun being dipped)
(transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually inrhythm, as when singing or dancing.
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2001 January 1, Lisa Beth, “Question of Conversion”, insoc.culture.jewish.moderated[3] (Usenet):
A commander tells the soldiers, "We're going on a 5 mile run". And somedip asks, "Do we have to bring our kitbags?" At which point, the answer is yes. It wouldn't have been if the soldier hadn't asked the question.
