drop
- noun
- /drɑp/
- Standing at the edge of the cliff, I could see the dramatic drop of 200 feet to the rocky shore below.
- a steep drop
- a drop-off
And it's a straight drop from my shoulder right down to my heel.
- And it's a straight drop from my shoulder right down to my heel.
- So we're walking back, but there's a gap with the drop with the ladder that goes down.
- I'm not a huge fan of heights or drops, really.
- I just the most ominous sheer drop.
- It's just my mom will show you some B roll of the view and the drop from this bridge there.
- But that wasn't the first vertical drop that that was made in in Paris.
Examples
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We're over the drop zone.
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Think you can get us back to that drop zone, boy?
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And from there you could see it, it's a straight down drop in the market.
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And then we have our drop right there.
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It's just my mom will show you some B roll of the view and the drop from this bridge there.
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We walked about 40 feet and encountered a very steep drop in the canyon floor.
Academic text (1995) -
The stairs descended from the other end, and a ten-foot drop lay before him.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Buick wound higher and higher along a road with a sheer drop on one side.
Fiction book (1994) -
Keiko shivered at the thought of the long drop to the ground.
Fiction book (1992) -
When the fog lifts, the abrupt drop to the ocean becomes steeper and more hypnotic.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
A high, steep edge of rock or ground often by the sea
A movement down from a higher place to a lower place or a slope that goes down
A very steep edge of land or rock
Idioms
- Informal
A very small amount that does not help with a much larger problem
- Offensive
Become vulnerable to sexual attack in prison, often used as a grim joke or warning
- Texting
Finish speaking or performing in a confident, impressive way that needs no reply
- Offensive
Say the rude word 'fuck', often in a situation where it surprises or offends people
- Informal
To prepare for a real fight or, informally, to stop fighting and start working together
Compounds
- Specialized
An area where supplies or soldiers are dropped from a plane by parachute
- Jargon
A secret place where people leave messages or items for others to collect without meeting
- Specialized
A list of options that appears below a menu item so you can choose one
- Specialized
A soft shot in tennis that lands just over the net and drops quickly, hard to reach
- Specialized
A loss of electrical pressure when current goes through a wire or part of a circuit
- Slang
An impressive ending to a speech or performance that shows nothing more needs saying
- Australian
A fake dangerous animal Australians joke about that falls from trees onto people to scare tourists
- Specialized
A fin under a sailboat that you raise or lower to stop the boat sliding sideways
- Specialized
A large curtain that people lower from above to make a background on a stage
- Specialized
A large curtain hung above the stage that lowers to make background scenery
- Jargon
A moment when a song starts in a film or show that makes the scene more powerful
How Steep
Surface Forms
Etymology
A drop for a steep edge comes from the idea of the ground suddenly 'falling' away; so a drop is a sharp, vertical fall in the land.