Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. venereal disease, esp. gonorrhoea; the discharge that accompanies it.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Dripper, a sort of Clap, or venereal gleating.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Dripper, a gleet.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

2. an ageing prostitute.

1970		G.F. Newman Sir, You Bastard gloss.: Dripper: an old prostitute past her best (and no longer controller of her emissions). [Ibid.] 68: He had probably been with some old dripper.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 342/1: since ca. 1930.

3. a prostitute, a promiscuous woman; the implication is of her de facto carrying a venereal disease.

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