drippings

1. 1.

   fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried

   Broaderedible fat

Other forms of drippings

plural

drippingses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drippings

What does drippings mean?

drippings means "fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried".

How many syllables are in drippings?

drippings has 2 syllables: drip-pings. The stress falls on "drip".

Is drippings a common word?

drippings is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.