to drop
- verb
- /drɑp/
- In spring, many deer drop their fawns in secluded areas to keep them safe.
Examples
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Most of them had real bad lesions and a lot were dropping calves.
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The calf is dropped from the cow, the colt from the mare.
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Now, what happens if you do a slap drop and give birth?
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The mare uttered a disgusted snort and dropped her head, questing for grass amid the snakeweed.
Fiction book (2001) -
She was worried about her cow and hoped it wouldn't drop the calf until they were out of the barn.
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The experienced farmer knows when his sheep will drop their lambs based on their breeding cycles.
Synonyms
To have a baby or young animal from your body
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 a foal or calf uses the picture of the young one coming down into the world, as if it is 'dropped' from the mother, so to drop here means to give birth for some animals.