Usually means: Temporary decrease in value, popularity.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIP, dip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. DIP, Dip, dip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dip, dip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dip, dip: Wordnik
  7. dip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DIP, dip: Wiktionary
  9. dip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DIP, dip: Dictionary.com
  13. dip: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DIP, Dip (Catalan myth), Dip (TV series), Dip (Tyga song), Dip (album), Dip (dance move), Dip (exercise), Dip (food), Dip (geology), Dip (geometry), Dip (song), Dip, The Dip, The dip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dip: Rhymezone
  19. dip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DIP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Dip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. dip: Free Dictionary
  24. dip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. dip, dip: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dip: Artist Search
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. dip: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Dip: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. DIP: Investopedia
  5. dip: Legal dictionary
  6. DIP: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. DIP: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. dip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DIP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIP: Acronym Finder
  2. DIP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. dip: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. DIP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. dip: Natural History Terms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Dip: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. D.I.P, the dip: Urban Dictionary
  5. Dip: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. DIP: Electronics
  4. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. DIP: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  10. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  11. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  12. Glossary of PCB Terms (No longer online)
  13. Semiconductor Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lower section of a road or geological feature.
noun:  Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
noun:  The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
noun:  A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
noun:  A dip stick.
noun:  A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
noun:  A sauce for dipping.
noun:  (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
noun:  (archaic) A dipped candle.
noun:  (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
noun:  (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
noun:  (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
noun:  (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
noun:  (uncountable) Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
noun:  (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
noun:  (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
noun:  (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
verb:  (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
verb:  (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
verb:  (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
verb:  (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
verb:  (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
verb:  (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
verb:  (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
verb:  To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
verb:  (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
verb:  (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
verb:  (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
verb:  (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
verb:  (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
verb:  (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
verb:  (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
verb:  (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
verb:  (transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
verb:  (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
noun:  (informal) A foolish person.
noun:  (informal) A diplomat.
noun:  (ABDL, informal, uncommon) A diaper; diap, dipe.
noun:  (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
noun:  (electronics) Acronym of dual in-line package.
noun:  (programming) Acronym of dependency inversion principle. [(object-oriented programming) Design principle that states that (1) High- and low-level modules should both depend on abstractions and (2) instead of abstractions depending upon details, details should depend upon abstractions.]

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