dipped

English

Etymology

From dip +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪpt/
• Rhymes: -ɪpt

Verb

dipped

1. simple past and past participle of dip

Adjective

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

• dipped candle
• dipped headlight