Deffinition: Dribble

dribble |ˈdribəl|
verb
1 [ intrans. ] (of a liquid) fall slowly in drops or a thin stream : rain dribbled down the window figurative : refugees from central Europe dribbled into Britain.
• [ trans. ] pour (a liquid) in such a way : he dribbled cream into his coffee.
• [ intrans. ] allow saliva to run from the mouth : his mouth was open and he was dribbling.
2 [ trans. ] (chiefly in soccer, field hockey, and basketball) take (the ball) forward past opponents with slight touches of the feet or the stick, or (in basketball) by continuous bouncing : he attempted to dribble the ball from the goal area | [ intrans. ] he dribbled past a swarm of defenders.
noun
1 a thin stream of liquid; a trickle : a dribble of blood.
• saliva running from the mouth.
2 figurative foolish talk or ideas; nonsense : don't believe a word of that dribble.
3 (in soccer, hockey, and basketball) an act or instance of taking the ball forward with repeated slight touches or bounces.
DERIVATIVES
dribbler |-b(ə)lər| noun
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: frequentative of obsolete drib, variant of drip . The original sense was [shoot an arrow short or wide of its target,] which was also a sense of drib. Sense 2 of the noun may have been influenced by drivel .