dropper

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time

From drop + -er.

You know I never touched dropper anything. — Anderson Crow, Detective, George Barr McCutcheon
The word 'readers' momentarily jolted the Spook until he realized Scott meant newspaper readers, not his team of Van-Ecking eaves- droppers. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
He looks as if he’d heard bad news from his sick family.” By this time the pocket-book dropper had come up. — Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks, Horatio, Jr. Alger

eye dropper

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