foot drop


nounPathology.
  1. extension of the foot caused by paralysis of the flexor muscles of the leg.

Origin of foot drop

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use foot drop in a sentence

  • I didn't think even he would tackle a sixty-thousand-foot drop.

    The Skylark of Space | Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
  • Before us, over the brink of a five hundred-foot drop, a great glistening plain stretched into the distance.

    Beyond the Vanishing Point | Raymond King Cummings
  • Frederick ordered her to be quiet, and she let her foot drop again on the leather upholstery.

    Atlantis | Gerhart Hauptmann
  • Whew, I wouldn't like to take the chances of a thirty-foot drop like that, if the branch broke or his trousers tore!

    Fast Nine | Alan Douglas
  • There was a six-foot drop on the far side into a lane; but it was now neck or nothing, so I let myself go.

    Jim Davis | John Masefield