dipped

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English

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Etymology

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From dip +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dipped

  1. simple past and past participle of dip

Adjective

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dipped (comparative more dipped, superlative most dipped)

  1. That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  2. Of headlights: lowered.
  3. (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 [...].
    • 1898, Stanley John Weyman, chapter IV, in The Castle Inn:
      Estcombe is dipped: and of the money I raised, there is no more at the agent's than I have lost in a night at Quinze!

Derived terms

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