'dipped' is a perfectly valid word in written English
It is a past tense verb commonly used in place of 'to plunge or put something into a liquid'. Example sentence: She dipped her brush into the paint and began applying it to the canvas.
Outside, clubbers dipped their hands in a bucket of chlorinated water before filing in.
The juice is frozen within a small round mould, shaped like an egg yolk, and the frozen yolk is dipped in gelatine.
Bookmakers, already week after last week's budget raised the tax on lucrative fixed odds betting machines from 20% to 25%, dipped again on reports that the weekend's Premier League football fixtures were bad news, with all the favourites winning and costing them £20m.
The first year that information about pay was required was 2010, when Goldman Sachs' average was £4m before it dipped to £1.8m and then started to rise again.
"He's obviously dipped this last couple of months and first season in a new league can take some getting used to, even with the price tag," Neville said.
Last year, the unemployment rate dipped below to 5.9%, a rate not seen since July 2008.
Rona Munro's epic trilogy about three 15th-century kings dipped in the middle section but, in the year of the independence referendum, put Scottish nationalism in bracing historical perspective.
Amec, the energy services business, said trading was in line with expectations, but warned its order book had dipped slightly since the end of June, from £3.2bn to £3bn.
Amec dipped 3p to £10.75 despite hopes it would return cash to shareholders, depending on future acquisition opportunities.
The evening sun had barely dipped behind the OCS Stand; the boos rang out, fueled by the booze, but hardly unjustified after an abject display from some highly compensated players.
This recipe is based on one of my favourite childhood sweet desserts: deep-fried yoghurt and semolina doughnuts dipped into cold thick syrup.
