dropper

/ˈdrɑpər/
noun
  1. A small tube with a rubber bulb at one end, used to draw up and release liquid in drops.
    • Use the dropper to add exactly three drops of food coloring to the mixture.
    • The medicine comes with a dropper for easy dosing.
    • She carefully filled the dropper with essential oil for the diffuser.
  2. A person or thing that drops something.
    • The leaf dropper in the park was busy raking up fallen leaves.
    • He was a notorious name-dropper at parties, always mentioning famous people he knew.
    • In the factory, a machine acts as a dropper for placing parts onto the conveyor belt.
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