Dribble glass

{{Short description|Practical joke drinking glass}} thumb|An advert for a dribble glass from a 1948 comic book: "Make your drinking friends drool!" A '''dribble glass''' is a drinking glass that has holes hidden in its etched design.<ref>{{cite book | last=Hargrave | first=J. | title=Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual | publisher=Penguin Young Readers Group | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-101-48602-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYBtE9WG5b4C&pg=PT115 | access-date=February 6, 2019 | pages=115–118}}</ref>

The purpose of a dribble glass is for pranks. When a person tilts the glass to take a drink from this glass, they will end up spilling the liquid on their clothing as the drink trickles through the holes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Soule |first1=Gardner |title=Fun's Henry Ford is Still Inventing |journal=Popular Science |date=January 1955 |volume=166 |issue=1 |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSYDAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Dribble+glass%22&pg=PA123 |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>

In ancient Greece, sculptors created so-called "dirty trick vases" that featured a small rectangular hole in the foot of the vase.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vickers |first=Michael |date=1975-07-01 |title=A Dirty Trick Vase |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/503485 |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |volume=79 |issue=3 |pages=282 |doi=10.2307/503485 |jstor=503485 |s2cid=191406310 |issn=0002-9114|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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==Further reading== * {{cite book |last1=Newgarden |first1=M. |title=Cheap laffs: the art of the novelty item |publisher=H.N. Abrams |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0g_fAAAAMAAJ |access-date=February 6, 2019 |page=34 |isbn=9780810955998}}

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