dipped
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪpt/
Adjective
dipped (comparative more dipped, superlative most dipped)
- That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
- Of headlights: lowered.
- (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
- 1705, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
- The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
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