namedrop
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English
Verb
namedrop (third-person singular simple present namedrops, present participle namedropping, simple past and past participle namedropped)
- Alternative spelling of name-drop
- 2009 January 26, “New CDs”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.”
Noun
namedrop (plural namedrops)
- An instance of name-dropping.
- 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- [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.”