Word.ws English Dictionary

drop like a bad habit

drop like a bad habit verb: to cease contact or a relationship with someone as quickly as possible.

Verb

drop like a bad habit (third-person singular simple present drops like a bad habit, present participle dropping like a bad habit, simple past and past participle dropped like a bad habit)

  1. (informal, transitive, simile) To cease contact or a relationship with someone as quickly as possible.

Synonyms of drop like a bad habit

Forms of drop like a bad habit

third-person singular presentdrops like a bad habit
present participledropping like a bad habit
past participledropped like a bad habit
pastdropped like a bad habit

Questions about drop like a bad habit

What does drop like a bad habit mean?
Drop like a bad habit means to cease contact or a relationship with someone as quickly as possible.
What part of speech is drop like a bad habit?
Drop like a bad habit is a verb.
What is the past tense of drop like a bad habit?
The past tense of drop like a bad habit is dropped like a bad habit.

Words near drop like a bad habit in the dictionary

  1. drop kicks
  2. drop letter
  3. drop letters
  4. drop light
  5. drop lights
  6. drop like a bad habit
  7. drop like a hot brick
  8. drop like a hot potato
  9. drop like a hot skillet
  10. drop like flies
  11. drop lock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drop like a bad habit (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “drop like a bad habit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/drop_like_a_bad_habit. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.