drop a line

1. 1.

   communicate (with) in writing

   “Write her soon, please!”

   Synonymswrite

   Broadercorrespond

Questions about drop a line

What does drop a line mean?

drop a line means "communicate (with) in writing".

What is another word for drop a line?

Close synonyms include write. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drop a line a common word?

drop a line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.