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Definition of Dribbling
1. Noun. The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks.
Generic synonyms: Actuation, Propulsion
Category relationships: Association Football, Soccer, Basketball, Basketball Game, Hoops
Specialized synonyms: Double Dribble
Derivative terms: Dribble, Dribble
Definition of Dribbling
1. Verb. (present participle of dribble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dribbling
1. dribble [v] - See also: dribble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dribbling
Literary usage of Dribbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"You must not be in too great a hurry in dribbling the ball, ... The fact that
there is not merely so much dribbling now as there used to be is probably due ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"... when he passed his water also unconsciously ; and from this time there was a
constant dribbling of urine, the bladder remaining in a contracted state. ..."
3. On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary and reproductive organs by Donald Campbell Black (1872)
"dribbling of urine occasions, unless precautions be adopted against it, excoriations
on the thigh and adjacent parts, causing great annoyance. ..."
4. Michaud's History of the Crusades by Joseph Fr. Michaud (1852)
"... we resemble those modern travellers who have only found a dribbling rivulet
in the place of that famous Scamander, of which the imagination of the ..."
5. Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication by John William Fyfe, John Milton Scudder (1909)
"... others who were unable to prevent constant dribbling of the urine, which
rendered them filthy and disagreeable, not only to themselves but to those ..."
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