Definition of "trickle" []

• To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream. (verb-intransitive)
• To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in. (verb-intransitive)
• To cause to trickle. (verb-transitive)
• The act or condition of trickling. (noun)
• A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Then a plastic over that, and then in that is a what they call a trickle line or hose."
• "This is what I call trickle down news, because we receive it after its been edited, re-edited, chewed, regurgitated and totally disguised."
• "For now, the fact that a lot of national borrowing is denominated in U.S. dollars is leading to what we call trickle-up wealth destruction."