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namedrops

namedrops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of namedrop.

namedrops is the plural 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 namedrops

What is namedrops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Namedrops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of namedrop.

Words near namedrops in the dictionary

  1. namedropped
  2. namedropper
  3. namedroppers
  4. namedropping
  5. namedroppings
  6. namedrops
  7. namedst
  8. namee
  9. namees
  10. namefag
  11. namefagged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: namedrops (page history and authors); namedrop (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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