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# dribble

«dribble» in Mova's school dictionary: **To let liquid, especially spit, run slowly out of your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (dribble, dribbles, dribbled, dribbling); noun (a dribble, dribbles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To let liquid, especially spit, run slowly out of your mouth: babies dribble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#m1)

2) (of liquid) To fall or flow slowly in drops or a thin stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#m2)

3) (sport) To move a ball along by giving it many small kicks (football) or bounces (basketball) while running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#m3)

4) (noun) A small, thin stream of liquid, or spit coming from the mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In PE lessons, pupils practise dribbling a football through cones or a basketball down the court. In everyday life babies and dogs dribble. In science, a tap may dribble when the water pressure is low. Phrases: «dribble past», «dribble the ball», «a dribble of», «dribble down».

### examples

- The baby dribbled all over his bib. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x1)
- She dribbled the ball past three defenders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x2)
- Water dribbled from the leaky tap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x3)
- The basketball player dribbled to the hoop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x4)
- A dribble of honey ran down the jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x5)
- The dog dribbled when it smelled the sausages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x6)
- We practised dribbling round the cones in PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/#x7)

### note

Past «dribbled», -ing «dribbling». UK also uses «drool» or «slobber» for spit; US «drool» is more common. In basketball, «double dribble» (bouncing with two hands or stopping and starting again) breaks the rules.

### In the corpora

- [Everyone picks their nose or dribbles in their sleep sometimes; these are normal body things, not proof that someone is gross.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/11-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dribble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dribble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.