namedrop

See also: name-drop, and name drop

English

Verb

namedrop (third-person singular simple present namedrops, present participle namedropping, simple past and past participle namedropped)

1. Alternative spelling of name-drop
   • 2009 January 26, “New CDs”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He namedrops the Thundercats, Punky Brewster and “hammerhead sharks in Bermuda,” describes his car as looking “like Almond Joy” and taunts, on “Ain’t I (remix),” “The choppers in the trunk will make you do the Macarena.”

Noun

namedrop (plural namedrops)

1. An instance of name-dropping.
   • 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     [Adam Gopnik] moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”

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