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means so stylish or soaked that the quality is visibly oozing off the surface — used literally for liquid running off something, and slangily for someone overflowing with swagger, charisma, or jewelry.

from Straightforward Old English stock: 'drip' traces back to 'dryppan,' meaning to fall in drops, itself kin to 'drop.' The literal sense — water dripping off a roof, sweat dripping off a brow — is centuries old and unremarkable. The slang leap, where being 'dripping' (in gold, in style) means radiating excess, is much newer, emerging from hip-hop and street slang in the 2010s, where 'drip' became shorthand for flashy fashion or swagger so abundant it seems to spill off you. The literal and the slang senses share the same image: something so full it overflows its container — only now the container is a person, and the overflow is style.