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namedropped

namedropped is the simple past and past participle of namedrop.

Meaning of namedrop

Noun

namedrop (plural namedrops)

  1. An instance of name-dropping.
    • [Adam Gopnik] moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about namedropped

What is namedropped the simple past and past participle of?
Namedropped is the simple past and past participle of namedrop.

Words near namedropped in the dictionary

  1. named pipe
  2. named pipes
  3. named the day
  4. namedness
  5. namedrop
  6. namedropped
  7. namedropper
  8. namedroppers
  9. namedropping
  10. namedroppings
  11. namedrops

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