Namedrop
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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.”"
- 1 Alternative spelling of name-drop. alt-of, alternative
"He namedrops the Thundercats, Punky Brewster and “hammerhead sharks in Bermuda,” describes his car as looking “like Almond Joy” and taunts, on “Ain’t I (remix),” “The choppers in the trunk will make you do the Macarena.”"
- 2 refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them wordnet
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More examples"He namedrops the Thundercats, Punky Brewster and “hammerhead sharks in Bermuda,” describes his car as looking “like Almond Joy” and taunts, on “Ain’t I (remix),” “The choppers in the trunk will make you do the Macarena.”"
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