drib.
To cut off; chop off.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
A drop.
Where this word comes from
From a variant of drip.
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