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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
name-dropping is a noun meaning "the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener". It carries one recorded sense.
the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener
“the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for name-dropping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.