Usually means: Engages in activity occasionally, superficially.
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  1. dabbles: Merriam-Webster
  2. dabbles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dabbles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dabbles, dabbles: Wordnik
  5. dabbles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dabbles: Wiktionary
  7. dabbles: Dictionary.com
  8. dabbles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dabbles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dabbles: Idioms

(Note: See dabble as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dabble)

verb:  (transitive) To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
verb:  (transitive) To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
verb:  (intransitive, of waterfowl) To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To interfere or meddle in; to tamper with.
noun:  A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid.
noun:  An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc.
noun:  An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
▸ Also see dabble


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