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NAMEDROP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does namedrop mean?
• NAMEDROP (verb)
The verb NAMEDROP has 1 sense:
1. refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
Familiarity information: NAMEDROP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "namedrop" is one way to...):
advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer (make reference to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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