drib

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cut off; chop off.
2. verb To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. verb To entice step by step.
4. verb To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
5. verb To shoot directly at short range.
6. verb To shoot at a mark at short range.
7. verb To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
8. verb To beat; thrash; drub.

Similar words

cut off dock chop detruncate chop down bate cross delimb decide abscise

Often followed by

of

Word family

dribs