Other forms: dribbling, dribbled, dribbles
To dribble is to run with the ball, tapping it along as you go. Feet in football, a bouncing hand in basketball.
Keeping the ball under close control is the whole skill, and a good dribbler is one nobody can take it from. The word has an entirely separate everyday sense, since to dribble is also to let liquid run slowly from the mouth, which babies do and so does anybody asleep in a chair. Both come from the idea of something moving in small amounts. A dribble of oil is a thin trickle of it.
From drib + -le.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sports & Fitness, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 14 of A Man Called Ove.
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