to drop
- verb
- /drɑp/
- NSFW
- Charles never dropped acid and and I never did.
Examples
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We dropped 'shrooms and had unprotected sex.
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You know, he goes to India, he drops acid, who then becomes the head of the most valuable corporation in world history.
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Yeah, I dropped last night and I think I fell.
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Shall we drop acid or we already did, right?
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As someone who'd never hitchhiked to the West Coast or dropped acid or been broke.
Fiction book (1997) -
Last night, I decided to drop acid with my friends at the concert.
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Before the festival began, she planned to drop a few hits of acid to enhance the experience.
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He had never experienced anything like it until he finally chose to drop acid at the party.
Synonyms
To make food or drink move from the mouth into the stomach
To take a pill or medicine quickly
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
Phrasal Verbs
To move to a position behind other players, for example to prepare a pass or to help defend
- Specialized
To stop using some parts of a machine learning model at random during training so it learns better
- Slang
To end a speech or comment with an impressive move to show nothing more is needed
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
To drop acid comes from putting small 'drops' of liquid LSD on the tongue or paper, so to drop in this sense means to take the drug by mouth.