namedrop

present singular third person namedrops · participle present namedropping · participle past namedropped · past namedropped

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of name-drop.

   He namedrops the Thundercats, Punky Brewster and “hammerhead sharks in Bermuda,” describes his car as looking “like Almond Joy” and taunts, on “Ain’t I (remix),” “The choppers in the trunk will make you do the Macarena.”

   2009 January 26, “New CDs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

plural namedrops

1. An instance of name-dropping.

   [Adam Gopnik] moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”

   2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN