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English
Etymology
From dip + -ed.
Pronunciation
Verb
dipped
- simple past and past participle of dip
Adjective
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!
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