dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭp
ipa: /dɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: dips
Etymology: From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.
Senses: examples: text: There is a dip in the road ahead.
text: 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 the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
text: 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 short dip before Monsal Dale.
ref: 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 177–178:
glosses: A lower section of a road or geological feature.
glosses: Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
examples: text: With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […]
ref: a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Seventh”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 184, lines 293–296:
glosses: The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
glosses: A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
glosses: A dip stick.
examples: text: I’m going for a dip before breakfast.
glosses: A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
text: 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”?
ref: 1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:
glosses: A pickpocket.
examples: text: This onion dip is just scrumptious.
glosses: A sauce for dipping.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
examples: text: by the feeble light of the dip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones
ref: 1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend:
glosses: A dipped candle.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel 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.
qualifier: turpentine industry
glosses: The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
examples: text: Packed a lip full of beluga caviar after mistaking a tin for a can of dip and then spat the juice into an urn that I thought was a sombre spittoon.
ref: 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”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022:
synonyms: chewing tobacco
snuff
glosses: Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
examples: text: I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 124:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
examples: text: My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo! Fried bread? Or ‘dip’?
ref: 2020 May 29, Bocca della Verita (@BocaVerite), Twitter:
qualifier: Birmingham
glosses: Fried bread.
examples: text: buy the dips
topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
Derived terms: bean dip
bunny dip
buying the dip
chili dip
dip candle
dipcoat
dip-coat
dip coat
dipfuck
diphead
dip net
dip netter
dip of the horizon
dip of the needle
dip pen
dip sector
dipsector
dipstick
dip stitch
dip tube
dipwad
double-dip
double dip
downdip
elbow dip
farthing dip
French dip
hip dip
honey dip
hot-dip
impossible dip
lab dip
line of dip
lucky dip
magnetic dip
polar bear dip
postprandial dip
Russian dip
saveloy dip
seven-layer dip
sheep-dip
skydip
slippery dip
spinach dip
take a dip
Texas dip
tin dip
toe-dip
undip
updip