as in spoon
a utensil with a bowl and a handle that is used especially in cooking and serving food
the metal dipper left in the stew pot was too hot to touch
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Recent Examples of dipper
The seven bright stars of the dipper outline the rear end and the tail of the constellation Big Bear, or Ursa Major.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
The benchmark disc’s shots of bright, colorful objects like honey dippers and flowers against completely black backgrounds serve as torture tests for LED TVs in terms of light bloom.
—PC Magazine, 30 July 2025
The dippers’ debut comes at the heels of Popeyes latest menu innovation: chicken wraps.
—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
Astronomy neophytes sometimes mistake the Pleiades star cluster for the Little Dipper because the brightest Pleiades stars resemble a tiny, skewed dipper.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 June 2025
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
The benchmark disc’s shots of bright, colorful objects like honey dippers and flowers against completely black backgrounds serve as torture tests for LED TVs in terms of light bloom.
—PC Magazine, 30 July 2025
The dippers’ debut comes at the heels of Popeyes latest menu innovation: chicken wraps.
—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
Astronomy neophytes sometimes mistake the Pleiades star cluster for the Little Dipper because the brightest Pleiades stars resemble a tiny, skewed dipper.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dipper
spoon
Noun
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Pipe or spoon 3 tablespoons of the goat cheese filling slightly below the midway point of the skillet across the egg mixture, leaving about 1 inch of space at both ends.—
Jeremiah Langhorne,
Saveur,
4 Sep. 2025
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Carefully slide the spoon between the whites and shell and apply light pressure to separate the two.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Dipper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dipper. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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