NAME-DROPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does name-dropping mean? 

• NAME-DROPPING (noun)
  The noun NAME-DROPPING has 1 sense:

1. the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener

  Familiarity information: NAME-DROPPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAME-DROPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it

Hypernyms ("name-dropping" is a kind of...):

mention; reference (a remark that calls attention to something or someone)