What does namedrop mean?
Namedrop means Alternative spelling of name-drop..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
Alternative spelling of name-drop..
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.”
[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.”
Use namedrop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Namedrop means Alternative spelling of name-drop..
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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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