0 to (cause a liquid to) flow very slowly in small amounts: --
1 to have liquid slowly coming out of your mouth: --
Babies dribble constantly.
2 in football or hockey, to move a ball along the ground with repeated small kicks or hits, or (in basketball) to move a ball by repeatedly hitting it against the floor with your hand: --
5 in football, when a ball is moved along the ground with repeated kicks or, in basketball, when a ball is moved by repeatedly hitting it against the floor with your hand: --
Such candidates hang on by dribbles of preferences and never get anywhere near a significant amount of the vote, especially in five-candidate constituencies.
Inevitably more measures had to be taken because they were dribbled out gradually.
Will it be spent this year, or will it be gradually dribbled out over the next two or three years?
Dribbling about, as we are doing, will not get us anywhere.
Alternatively, will they be dribbled on to the market?
I am glad that the dogs have dribbled and that we are having this argument.
The policy of dribbling the rate down one percentage point at a time strikes me as being open to considerable doubt.
As time dribbles away, we need to reconsider an issue whose time is about to come.
