overdroop

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noun

An overhanging part.

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Meanings

nounoverdroop (plural overdroops)

plural overdroops

  1. rareAn overhanging part.

    2013, Gregory Norminton, Arts and Wonders Gonsalvus chewed the overdroop of his moustache: a gesture borrowed, without his knowing, from my late Milanese mentor.

verboverdroop (third-person singular simple present overdroops, present participle overdrooping, simple past and past participle overdrooped)

present singular third person overdroops · participle present overdrooping · participle past overdrooped · past overdrooped

  1. transitiveTo droop over.

    As if to screen their roughness, vines and mosses cover and shrubbery and cedar clumps edge and overdroop them.

    1898, Theresa Thorndale, Sketches and Stories of the Lake Erie Islands (page 94)

Origin

over- + droop

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APA

overdroop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overdroop

MLA

“overdroop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overdroop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overdroop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overdroop.

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