dipped
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dipped
- simple past and past participle of dip
Adjective
[edit]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 [...].
- 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!