drop one's serve

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   lose a game in which one is serving

   Broaderlose

   tennis

Questions about drop one's serve

What does drop one's serve mean?

drop one's serve means "lose a game in which one is serving".

Is drop one's serve a common word?

drop one's serve 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.