dropper
noun /ˈdrɒpə(r)/
/ˈdrɑːpər/
- enlarge imagea short glass tube with a hollow rubber end used for measuring medicine or other liquids in drops
- an eye dropper
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDropper is used after these nouns:- medicine
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a person who lets something drop’); the current sense is first recorded in the late 19th cent.