[ˈdrɒpsi], (Noun)

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Middle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy’, from hudōr ‘water’

[ˈdrɒpsi], (Noun)

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- a tip or bribe
(e.g: McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered)


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1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop ‘a bribe’