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mic-drop

mic-drop is the alternative form of mic drop.

Meaning of mic drop

Noun (1)

mic drop (plural mic drops)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) An instance of dropping the mic.
    • No mic drop in history will ever be as thoroughly scrutinised as the one performed by Barack Obama during his final White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening. Historians hundreds of years from now will refer to his “Obama out” in the same breath as the Emancipation Proclamation and “Mr...2016 May 2, Stuart Heritage, “‘Obama out’: a brief history of mic drops”, in The Guardian

Noun (2)

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

  1. Synonym of drop the mic.
    Synonyms:
    drop the mic

Forms of mic-drop

Noun
pluralmic-drops
Verb
third-person singular presentmic-drops
present participlemic-dropping
past participlemic-dropped
pastmic-dropped

Questions about mic-drop

What is mic-drop the alternative form of?
Mic-drop is the alternative form of mic drop.

Words near mic-drop in the dictionary

  1. mic'ing
  2. mic-check
  3. mic-checked
  4. mic-checking
  5. mic-checks
  6. mic-drop
  7. Mic.
  8. mica
  9. mica insulator
  10. mica schist
  11. mica-schist

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