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drop down

drop down verb: to sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea.

Verb

drop down (third-person singular simple present drops down, present participle dropping down, simple past and past participle dropped down)

  1. (intransitive) To sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, down.
    • The glass bottle dropped down to the ground where it shattered.
    • This is the last road of the round and then we may as well drop down into the High Street and get a snack to carry us on till breakfast.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Forms of drop down

third-person singular presentdrops down
present participledropping down
past participledropped down
pastdropped down

Words formed from drop down

Questions about drop down

What does drop down mean?
Drop down means to sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea.
What part of speech is drop down?
Drop down is a verb.
What is the past tense of drop down?
The past tense of drop down is dropped down.

Words near drop down in the dictionary

  1. drop crotching
  2. drop curtain
  3. drop D
  4. drop dead
  5. drop dimes
  6. drop down
  7. drop earring
  8. drop earrings
  9. drop fade
  10. drop fence
  11. drop fences

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