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name-dropper

name-dropper is the alternative spelling of namedropper.

Meaning of namedropper

Noun

namedropper (plural namedroppers)

  1. A person who name-drops
    • One last note: Ann Landers is a name dropper. "I had lunch with the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia yesterday", "Just last week I was talking with the Senator."1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9

Forms of name-dropper

pluralname-droppers

Questions about name-dropper

What is name-dropper the alternative spelling of?
Name-dropper is the alternative spelling of namedropper.

Words near name-dropper in the dictionary

  1. name-checks
  2. name-child
  3. name-children
  4. name-drop
  5. name-dropped
  6. name-dropper
  7. name-droppers
  8. name-dropping
  9. name-droppings
  10. name-drops
  11. name-giving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: name-dropper (page history and authors); namedropper (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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