drib

Meanings

Verb

• To cut off; chop off.
• To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
• To entice step by step.
• To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
• To shoot directly at short range.
• To shoot at a mark at short range.
• To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
• To beat; thrash; drub.
• To scold.
• To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

Noun

• A drop.

Origin

• From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen ("to hit, strike, slay"), from Old English drepan ("to strike, kill, overcome"), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną ("to hit, strike").
• From a variant of drip.