"adroop" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /əˈdɹuːp/
Etymology: a- + droop Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|a|droop}} a- + droop Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} adroop (not comparable)
  1. Drooping. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-adroop-en-adj-bamTvsjU Categories (other): English terms prefixed with a- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with a-: 60 40
  2. Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-adroop-en-adj-VWBd6eIF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77

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          "text": "2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187,\nFor a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary."
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          "ref": "1945, Gardner Fox, “Man Nth”, in Planet Stories",
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          "ref": "1994, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own, New York: Scribner, published 1995, page 244",
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