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NAME-DROPPING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener

Example:

the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("name-dropping" is a kind of...):

mention; reference (a remark that calls attention to something or someone)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb name-drop

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