noun

• (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
  "The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books."
• (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
• (archaic) A dipped candle.
  "by the feeble light of the dip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones"
• (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.

verb

• (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
  "Dip your biscuit into your tea."
• (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  "The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out."
• (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
• (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
  "Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car."

noun

• (informal) A foolish person.
  "A commander tells the soldiers, "We're going on a 5 mile run". And some dip asks, "Do we have to bring our kitbags?" At which point, the answer is yes. It wouldn't have been if the soldier hadn't asked the question."

noun

• (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.