Fromdrib +-le(early modern English frequentative suffix).
dribble (third-person singular simple presentdribbles,present participledribbling,simple past and past participledribbled)
- (basketball, soccer) In variousballgames, tomove (with) the ball,controlling itspath bykicking orbouncing it repeatedly.
- To letsalivadrip from themouth; todrool.
The babydribbled onto its bib.
- Tofall indrops or anunsteadystream; totrickle.
- (transitive) To letsomething fall indrips.
1731 (date written; published1745),[Jonathan] Swift,Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […],→OCLC:let her [the cook] follow him softly with a ladle full, anddribble it all the way up stairs to the dining-room
- (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
- To perform acardflourish in which the cardsfallsmoothly from one'shand.
to let saliva drip from the mouth
to fall in drops or an unsteady stream
to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it
to let something fall in drips
dribble (countable anduncountable,pluraldribbles)
- (uncountable)Drool;saliva.
- (countable) Aweak,unsteady stream; atrickle.
- (countable) Asmallamount of a liquid.
- (countable, sports) Theact of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
- (countable) Acardflourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
act of kicking or bouncing a ball
Borrowed fromEnglishdribble.
dribble m (pluraldribbles)
- (sports)dribble
dribble
- inflection ofdribbler:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
dribble
- inflection ofdribbeln:
- first-personsingularpresent
- singularimperative
- first/third-personsingularsubjunctive I
