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mic drop

mic drop noun: an instance of dropping the mic.

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
    • Many crypto bros try to silence skeptics with the same mic drop: “Have fun staying poor.”2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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

mic drop meaning in Tamil

mic drop in Tamil

செயல்நிறைவு

Synonyms of mic drop

Forms of mic drop

pluralmic drops
alternative formmic-drop
third-person singular presentmic drops
present participlemic dropping
past participlemic dropped
pastmic dropped

Questions about mic drop

What does mic drop mean?
Mic drop means an instance of dropping the mic.
What is mic drop in Tamil?
Mic drop in Tamil is செயல்நிறைவு. See Mic drop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mic drop?
Mic drop is a noun.
What is the plural of mic drop?
The plural of mic drop is mic drops.

Words near mic drop in the dictionary

  1. mibs
  2. mibuna
  3. mic
  4. mic check
  5. mic checks
  6. mic drop
  7. mic drops
  8. mic fright
  9. mic up
  10. mic'd
  11. mic'd up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mic drop (page history and authors); mic drop (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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