Definition of drop in English English dictionary
- To release to the public
They dropped Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.
- To spend (money)
I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.
- a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop), alcoholic spirits in general
It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
- To swallow, as in ingesting a hallucinogen, particularly LSD
They had never dropped acid.
- A fall, descent; an act of dropping
That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn't break any bones.
- To allow to fall, either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on
The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.
- To cease concerning oneself over; to stop discussing with someone
I'm tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?.
- To express or utter casually or incidentally; to casually mention, usually in conversation, sometimes to give an impression of knowledge, ownership, membership, notoriety, or status. See also name-drop
The moderator would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
- To kill, usually by gunshot, especially in reference to big game hunting; or, sometimes, to knock down; to render unconscious
With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground.
- To write and send (as a letter or message). ''See also drop (someone) a line
Drop me a note when you get to the city.
- To fail to respond to (an argument)
The affirmative team dropped our arguments about the cost of the plan.
- To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc
Watch for the tempurature to drop sharply, then you'll know the reaction is complete.
- To enter public distribution
Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.
- A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge
- A single measure of whisky
- To get rid of; to eject; to remove; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list
I've been dropped from the football team.
- To lower oneself quickly to the ground
If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop and roll.
- In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference
- Any item dropped by defeated enemies
- A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid
Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
- An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute
The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
- The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall
On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point
I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.
- To impart
Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody's business.
- To fail to pronounce
Cockneys drop their h's.
- To fall
A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
- Short for drop-back or drop back
The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.
- A dropped pass
Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
- {v} to fall in drops, fall, let fall, utter slightly, quit, come, vanish, sink into silence, die
- {n} a small quantity of a liquid, an earring
- To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy
- To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped
- almost a zone defense, where the defensive players drop back to help protect the center of the pool and help block shots The ball carrier must be pressured to force a bad pass or hurried shot
- emphasis To drop is used in expressions such as to be about to drop and to dance until you drop to emphasize that you are exhausted and can no longer continue doing something. She looked about to drop
- To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb
- leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo; to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
- To come unexpectedly; with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment
- A defense in which players drop back to protect the center of the pool and attempt to block passes and shots
- A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, i.e. a lemon drop; a lozenge
- to a ship's deck
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
- If you drop something, you accidentally let it fall. I dropped my glasses and broke them
- If you drop a game or part of a game in a sports competition, you lose it. Oremans has yet to drop a set
- Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself
- grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc
- If you want someone to drop the subject, drop it, or let it drop, you want them to stop talking about something, often because you are annoyed that they keep talking about it. Mary Ann wished he would just drop it
- To fall in drops
- leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop
- If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way. If I drop a few hints he might give me a cutting
- To casually mention, usually in conversation, to give an impression of knowledge, ownership or membership
- to cease bidding when there are only two people who are still bidding The bid is said to be "dropped on" the unfortunate soul who has taken the bid Generally used only when the aforementioned person appears unable to make the bid ("It was dropped on me!")
- go down in value; "Stock prices dropped"
- A player who is offered a double may refuse, in which case he concedes the game and pays one point Otherwise, he must accept the double and play on for the new higher stakes
- The drop cable is a connection cable between the MDF and the splitter in an exchange, or between two areas of the same MDF
- A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet
- A student may, prior to the specified deadline, drop a course Dropped courses do not appear on a student's transcript
- A drop of a liquid is a very small amount of it shaped like a little ball. In informal English, you can also use drop when you are referring to a very small amount of something such as a drink. a drop of blue ink I'll have another drop of that Italian milk
- get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
- To fall short of a mark
- To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit
- a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"
- To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill
- When a ball must be lifted under penalty or otherwise, the player, standing erect, holds the ball at arm's length and shoulder height and drops it making sure that it does not land any nearer the hole
- That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug
- To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc
- A procedure by which a course is deleted from a student's schedule so the course does not appear on the student's permanent academic record A student may drop a course early in a term; this procedure must be completed by the date indicated in each academic term's Schedule of Classes An administrative office may drop students from courses in which they are not eligible to enroll See also Withdrawal
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
- {i} small globule of liquid, drip; very small amount; pendant; piece of candy, lozenge; act of dropping supplies from a plane; sudden descent, fall
- drop a bollock
- To make a mistake
- drop a bomb
- To announce surprising or alarming information suddenly and without warning
- drop a bomb
- to release faeces from the bowels; to excrete
prepare your backpack and MAYBE spare a minute to drop a bomb in the toilet?.
- drop a dime
- To make a phone call, usually means calling the police to report another's activities
He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph.
- drop a hint
- To reveal a clue or hint about something
- drop a line
- Write and send (someone) a note or telegram
If you get a chance, drop me a line when you arrive in Cairo.
- drop acid
- to take LSD
- drop back
- Of a quarterback or other player in the backfield, to take a number of steps back from the line of scrimmage immediately after the snap or hike of the ball, to avoid defenders
The Tiger quarterback is dropping back to pass.
- drop back
- The act by a player in the backfield of dropping back from the line of scrimmage after the hike of the ball
With his ankle injury his drop back is not pretty.
- drop backs
- plural form of drop back
- drop bear
- A fictional Australian marsupial, a large, carnivorous koala said to fall upon its prey from the treetops
Why the morbid fascination with that spot where the man died? And what was that thing he thought he saw? Third Generation. Beware the drop bear!.
- drop bears
- plural form of drop bear
- drop by
- to visit informally and spontaneously
- drop cap
- A large initial letter that drops below the first line of a paragraph, usually used at the beginning of a section or chapter of a book
- drop ceiling
- A dropped ceiling
- drop cloth
- An impermeable sheet of material meant to catch paint or other hard-to-clean substances
Always put down a drop cloth before you paint a ceiling.
- drop dead
- an angry expletive
- drop dead
- to die suddenly
- drop goal
- A goal scored by kicking the ball through the goal from open play, after the ball has touched the ground
- drop grommet
- A type of grommet (hole) on the topside of office furniture through which cables can fit
- drop in
- To arrive unannounced or with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment
I was in the garden covered with mud when my grandmother dropped in for a visit.
- drop in
- to paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding
Most beginners are blissfully unaware that dropping in on someone is a cardinal sin — Neal Miyake, The Unwritten Rules of Surfing.
- drop in
- One who arrives unannounced or without an appointment
The office was efficient, but not well equipped to handle drop-ins.
- drop in
- the act of dropping in (see verb below). Often hyphenated drop-in
2005: Drop-ins can and do happen by accident, as well as through frustration and confusion in a crowded lineup. — surfline.com Surfology.
- drop in the bucket
- An effort or action having very little overall influence, especially as compared to a huge problem
A $100 donation from an individual is generous, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the $100,000 fundraising goal.
- drop in the ocean
- a drop in the bucket
- drop ins
- plural form of drop in
- drop kerb
- A kerb of reduced height to allow vehicles access to properties adjoining a road
- drop kick
- A kick made by dropping the ball to the ground and kicking it after it bounces. A field goal or point after touchdown may be scored off a drop kick. Contrast punt
- drop kick
- A person of less than "no account"; a contemptible or unfashionable person; a loser
- drop kick
- A kick made by dropping the ball on the ground and kicking it as it bounces up. Now gone from the game, replaced by the drop punt
- drop kicks
- plural form of drop kick
- drop letter
- A large letter at the beginning of a line of text, positioned in a decorative way below the baseline of the rest of the type
- drop letter
- A letter mailed at a post office and either kept for general delivery, or delivered to a post office box, at that same post office
- drop light
- A lamp that is suspended, for example via a cable
- drop like flies
- Die en masse, one after the other
- drop off
- To lessen or reduce
Sales have dropped off in recent months.
- drop off
- To fall asleep
And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
- drop off
- To deliver; to deposit or leave
I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight.
- drop off
- To fall
The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree.
- drop off the radar
- To vanish or fall into obscurity
Greenbaum didn't dramatically drop off the radar as soon as that song peaked, but kept slogging away for five years with diminishing returns.
- drop one's guts
- to break wind, to fart
You haven’t just dropped your guts, have you, my dear? There’s a sudden stench in my nostrils, a stench that would stun a smaller man, a man who had not seen service in the trenches, as I have.” — 1993, Hatchings by John Eppel.
- drop out
- Prematurely and voluntarily leave (school, a race, or the like)
Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.
- drop punt
- A kick made by dropping the ball and kicking it before it touches the ground
- drop punts
- plural form of drop punt
- drop ship
- To deliver goods for a business directly to its customers, as though the business owned a relevant inventory, but the manufacturer is the real source of that delivery
If you drop ship the orders, then you don't need to own the products; thus, fewer of your customers suspect you're acting as a middle man.
- drop shipped
- Simple past tense and past participle of drop ship
- drop shipping
- Present participle of drop ship
- drop ships
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drop ship
- drop shot
- In sports such as badminton, squash, tennis and volleyball, a lightly-struck shot that just lands into play
- drop the F-bomb
- Alternative spelling of drop the f-bomb
- drop the ball
- To fail in one's responsibilities or duties, or to make a mistake, especially at a critical point or when the result is very negative
The movie ought to sputter out here, but Crowe and Cruise don't drop the ball.
- drop the f-bomb
- To utter the word fuck
From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb.
- drop the gloves
- To fight
Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too.
- drop the gloves
- To remove a prior impediment to action; to prepare for or engage in a dispute
But Bradley, who dropped the gloves on Gore in a combative debate Wednesday night and called the vice president chronically dishonest, ignored Sullivan's advice.
- drop the kids off at the pool
- To defecate
- drop the writ
- To call a federal or provincial election
Mr. Chrétien visited Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson and asked her to drop the writ, meaning that for the next 36 days, Canada will be hit with election fever.
- drop top
- A convertible car, the roof of which can be folded down to form an open-top vehicle
- drop trou
- To drop one's trousers and/or undershorts; to moon
- drop trou
- by extension: to strip, undress, get naked
- drop zone
- Alternative spelling of dropzone
- drop zone
- relegation zone
- drop zones
- plural form of drop zone
- drop-back
- The act by a player in the backfield of dropping back from the line of scrimmage after the hike of the ball
With his ankle injury his drop-back is not pretty.
- drop-backs
- plural form of drop-back
- drop-backs
- the act by a player in the backfield of dropping back from the line of scrimmage after the hike of the ball
For the last few plays he has had trouble with his drop-backs.
- drop-ball
- A method of restarting play in a game where the referee drops the ball between two players of opposing teams
- drop-dead
- very; impressive or spectacular
My date was drop-dead gorgeous!.
- drop-down
- A type of menu that, when selected, opens downward to reveal a list of possible options
The choice you want should be somewhere in that drop-down.
- drop-down
- Of a computer menu, opening downward to reveal a list of possible options
Make your selection from the drop-down list.
- drop-down list
- Alternative spelling of drop down list
- drop-in
- informal social event
- drop-in
- one who casually drops in
- drop-in
- provided for short-term use
- drop-leaf table
- A table having a hinged section that can be fixed in a horizontal position to extend the table and is folded down when not needed
- drop-off
- A sudden downward slope
- drop-off
- A sudden decrease (such as in the level of sales)
- drop someone into something
- Let someone fall into something
- drop out
- If someone drops out of college or a race, for example, they leave it without finishing what they started. He'd dropped out of high school at the age of 16 She dropped out after 20 kilometres with stomach trouble
- drop out
- disapproval If someone drops out, they reject the accepted ways of society and live outside the usual system. She encourages people to keep their jobs rather than dropping out to live in a commune. see also drop-out
- drop out
- quit school; quit any organized endeavor (race, course, contest, etc.); leave, depart
- drop-dead
- extremely; "she was drop-dead gorgeous
- drop a bomb
- (Ev ile ilgili) Announce shocking or startling news
- drop shadow
- (computer graphics) A visual effect consisting of drawing that looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it
- drop something into something
- Let something fall into something
- drop a deuce
- (Argo) Defecate, take a shit
I'll be right back, I gotta drop a deuce.
- drop in on
- (deyim) To make a short or unplanned visit; pay a call, drop by, run in
- drop the f-bomb
- (deyim) Utter a "fuck" related bad word
- drop-dead gorgeous
- (deyim) Extremely attractive
He's not drop-dead gorgeous or anything, but he's quite nice.
- drop by drop
- little by little, slowly
- dropped
- That has been allowed to drop or fall
- dropped
- Simple past tense and past participle of drop
- dropped
- not out due to a fielder failing to hold on a catch (catching or nearly catching the ball but dropping it before having secure hold of it)
- dropping
- {n} that which falls down in drops, a falling
- drop in
- (deyim) To make a short or unplanned visit; pay a call, drop by, run in
- drop off
- deliver something. deliver someone (by giving him/her a ride). "I'll drop letters off to the post office as I go home from work." "You don't have to take a taxi. You live fairly close to me, so I'll be happy to drop you off."
- A drop
- drib
- A drop
- gutta
- drop a line
- write a short letter, call someone on the telephone to say hello or check in
- drop back
- take position in the rear, especially of a military formation or team sporting event, "The defender dropped back behind his teammate
- drop by
- visit informally and spontaneously; "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee
- drop by
- If you drop by, you visit someone informally. She and Danny will drop by later He dropped by my office this morning
- drop by
- visit informally, pay a short visit
- drop dead
- die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket"
- drop dead
- die suddenly, "kick the bucket", "croak
- drop down
- fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees"
- drop down
- {f} drop to a lower place, fall to a lower level, drop, bring down; go down
- drop in
- A component that does not require connectors, but is typically soldered in place The body of the component may be bolted to the system ground plane
- drop in
- visit informally and spontaneously; "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee"
- drop in
- If you drop in on someone, you visit them informally, usually without having arranged it. Why not drop in for a chat? She spent most of the day dropping in on friends in Edinburgh
- drop in
- (verb) to turn onto to a little used single track Best, if you don't know the way, to let your friend drop in ahead of you, or you'll miss the turn
- drop in
- To take off on a wave when rider is already surfing
- drop in
- {f} visit informally or uninvited, briefly visit to say hello
- drop it
- {f} let go
- drop kick
- (Football) kick to the ball as it rebounds after it has dropped from the hands
- drop off
- leave quietly, disappear; become less; fall asleep
- drop off
- deliver something (e.g.: "On my way home I can drop off the letter at the post office"); giving a ride to a person ("You don't have to take the bus, you live close to you so I will drop you off on my way")
- drop off
- get worse; "My grades are slipping"
- drop off
- If you drop off to sleep, you go to sleep. I must have dropped off to sleep Just as I was dropping off, a strange thought crossed my mind
- drop off
- fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test
- drop off
- see drop 9
- drop off
- change from a waking to a sleeping state; "he always falls asleep during lectures"
- drop off
- fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"
- drop off
- If the level of something drops off, it becomes less. Sales to the British forces are expected to drop off = fall
- drop off
- retreat
- drop on
- {f} bump into; meet
- drop open
- open involuntarily; "His mouth dropped open"; "Her jaw dropped
- drop out
- CCC student who has not enrolled for three or more years
- drop out
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
- drop out
- A loss of data that occurs when the receiver is expecting a continuous signal Drop out is a signal level drop of more than 12 dB for more than 4 msec
- drop out
- A momentary loss of the carrier and sound, or a buildup of background noise when the transmitter is in a certain location in the room Moving the transmitter (even a few inches) usually restores the sound to normal
- drop out
- describes type which becomes white within a dark (or color) background see reversed
- drop out
- A graphic image created by printing the background and allowing the color of the paper to create the positive elements of the image
- drop out
- leave school or an educational program prematurely; "Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program
- drop out
- leave school or an educational program prematurely; "Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program"
- drop out
- The technique that can give a mediocre photo greater contrast by photographically removing some dots to create highlights that show the actual white of the paper
- drop out
- Law 13 - Kick-off and Restart kicks
- drop ship
- (Ticaret) Directing a vendor to send purchased material directly to a third party instead of delivering to the owner's facility for inspection or stocking
- drop shot
- A lightly hit, spinning return that drops softly over the net, forcing the opponent to approach the net
- drop shot
- A shot in various racket games in which a ball or shuttlecock drops quickly after crossing the net or hitting the wall. a shot in a game such as tennis in which the ball is hit softly and falls quickly to the ground
- drop shot
- You need to use a lot of Backspin to perform this shot It is a more severe version of a Slice, in that the idea is to get the ball just over the net and stop almost immediately just after the net without much bounce
- drop shot
- A soft, short shot with backspin Meant to drop over the net and die so that your opponent cannot get to it
- drop shot
- A shot that falls just over the net
- drop shot
- Putting the ball so short that the opponent has trouble reaching the ball Done when the opponent is away from the table
- drop shot
- A return intended to go a very short distance, into the opposing player's court and land softly
- drop shot
- a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net
- drop zone
- an agreed area where military supplies are dropped to ground troops
- drop zone
- The area into which soldiers or supplies are parachuted from an aircraft
- drop zone
- area where parachuters land
- drop zone
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