name dropper

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   someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends

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Questions about name dropper

What does name dropper mean?

name dropper means "someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends".

Is name dropper a common word?

name dropper 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.