teardrop
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- noun
- /ˈtɪrˌdrɑp/
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- Philip gave her a gift for her labors, a large, lustrous pearl shaped like a teardrop.
- teardrop-shaped
- teardrop earring
- crystal teardrops
OK, I want to be someone's teardrop tattoo, you know, rando out to dinner.
- OK, I want to be someone's teardrop tattoo, you know, rando out to dinner.
- It looks like a cartoon, like Daria it honestly, it looks like if you took a pencil and you drew this, but like a human face was in it like a teardrop shaped head.
Examples
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Many heads from pre Inca societies are teardrop shaped, the result of infants heads being bound while they are forming.
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You know it's clean, it's got the teardrop shape right and the cap has all of these really intricate, really cool details here as well.
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It's got a teardrop cross section.
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You almost need to think from about the middle there that you're doing a big kind of almost teardrop shape really.
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She has a natural little teardrop shape to it.
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Remember, small balls on the top, bigger ones on the bottom, and the teardrops go in the front.
Fiction book (1994) -
Tributaries, collapsed banks, teardrop shaped islands in the middle of the valley.
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Once he bought a pair of teardrop-shaped green and violet earrings.
Fiction book (1996) -
Fortunately for them, the street was deserted except for a small teardrop-shaped groundcar parked in front of them.
Fiction book (1992) -
The necklace has a beautiful teardrop pendant that catches the light.
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Teardrop comes from the two simple words tear 'liquid from the eye' and drop 'a small amount of liquid'. It was used for a rounded-top, pointed-bottom shape that looks like a falling tear, so we call many ornaments and designs 'teardrop' shaped.