dip – English noun declension

English noun forms of dip

Noun: dip
Singulardip
Pluraldips

Sample Sentences

  • There is a dip in the road ahead.
  • 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. [1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:]
  • 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. [1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 177–178:]
  • With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […] [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:]
  • I’m going for a dip before breakfast.
  • 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. [1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633]
  • 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”? [1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:]
  • Skeet is one of the modern young breed of dip, no longer interested in the pocket watches of the old and inattentive, finding more challenge in lifting a watch right off a wrist in broad daylight […]. [2025, Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket, Jonathan Cape, page 6:]
  • This onion dip is just scrumptious.
  • by the feeble light of the dip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones [1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend:]
  • The miser’s niece was there all right, seated on a little stool with straw in her hair and reading a monkish scroll by the light of a tallow dip. [1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 66:]
  • 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. [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:]
  • I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit. [2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 124:]
  • My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo! Fried bread? Or ‘dip’? [2020 May 29, Bocca della Verita (@BocaVerite), Twitter:]
  • buy the 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. See: Old English Nouns 'dyppan'.

Verbs referencing "dip"

English Nouns dope, Dutch Nouns dip, Finnish Nouns dippi.