Now the river bed is bone dry. drip-dry Drip-dry clothes or sheets are made of a fabric that dries free of creases when it is hung up wet. adj ...drip-dry shirts. dry-clean ( dry-cleans 3rd person present) ( dry-cleaning present participle) ( dry-cleaned past tense & past participle ) When things such as clothes are dry-cleaned, they are cleaned with a liquid chemical rather than with water. verb