to drop
- verb
- /drɑp/
- When she let go, she dropped to her hands and knees and slid down the tilted door.
- drop the curtain
- shoulders drop
- arms drop
In the old LS, if you drop the center armrest, it's an armrest.
- In the old LS, if you drop the center armrest, it's an armrest.
Examples
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A ten-foot retaining wall, dropping off like a cliff to the pavement below.
Fiction book (1991) -
Traz checked its action, dropped it into the slot, cocked it, and hung it loosely at his belt.
Fiction book (1993) -
Uh, no, I-I just -- I really just stopped by to drop that off.
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Then they follow, dropping into a hole one after the other.
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It's designed so that the ashes drop through to a tray below.
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Now he sat up, his red cap dropping to the floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
The water flows from crevices in the canyon wall year-round and drops fifty feet into a deep, clear pool.
Academic text (1992) -
Thoris shrugged, swung his legs back onto the cot, and dropped his head to the canvas.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artist chose to drop the fabric from a height to create a cascading effect in her installation.
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As the sun began to set, the shadows dropped down the hillside, stretching longer with each passing moment.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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
How Low
Surface Forms
Etymology
When something drops it hangs or hangs down loosely; the image is of it falling a little and staying suspended, so to drop can mean to hang downward.