namedrop
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
noun
An instance of name-dropping.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "[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.”"