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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.
namedrop is a verb meaning "refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them". It carries one recorded sense.
refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for namedrop come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.