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drop-down

drop-down is the alternative form of dropdown.

Meaning of dropdown

Adjective

dropdown (not comparable)

  1. Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
    • Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.

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Forms of drop-down

pluraldrop-downs

Phrases with drop-down

Questions about drop-down

What is drop-down the alternative form of?
Drop-down is the alternative form of dropdown.

Words near drop-down in the dictionary

  1. drop-crotch
  2. drop-crotched
  3. drop-crotches
  4. drop-crotching
  5. drop-dead
  6. drop-down
  7. drop-down list
  8. drop-down lists
  9. drop-down menu
  10. drop-down menus
  11. drop-downs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drop-down (page history and authors); dropdown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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