name-drop
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of name-drop
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
I’ll name-drop because Jeff Tweedy is a friend and he helped me get it and made it playable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
As she buzzes through their home, Bertha and her decorator blithely name-drop the provenance of chandeliers, rugs and paintings.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
Of course, being a journalist, Avlon couldn’t help but name-drop other journalists he’d been reading.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2024
This special is a more modest effort, and her personal anecdotes can’t help but name-drop now that she’s better known.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Cardi B said she’d even had to name-drop just to get food from restaurants in Atlanta and, even being famous, “it’s a hassle!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Taylor Swift also name-dropped the poet in her 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
But the comic, who routinely jokes about her own cosmetic work, didn’t spare herself as she name-dropped nominated films, saying, “Just like Frankenstein, I’ve been pieced together by an unlicensed European surgeon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
A fan of Drake, like many other perpetually online teenage boys at the time, Nathan found The Weeknd in 2011 when the rapper dropped a freestyle and name-dropped him.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
Multiple characters pivotal to the saga have been name-dropped in court but have been notably absent from the witness stand.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024
Of the dozens of Sunday Fundays we’ve published, no celebrity has name-dropped as many sponsorships or brand deals throughout the conversation as effortlessly as Paris Hilton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
He's even been name-dropping experimental Manchester act Durutti Column, known more for instrumental guitar music than stadium-conquering chart hits.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
The bad news is, and this is funny — I’m name-dropping — but David Coverdale texts me funny things all the time; I’ve been friends with him a long time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
“There is also the possibility that she might’ve pulled a Lil Tay,” Hilton said in a video posted early Thursday, name-dropping the braggadocious young rapper who was the subject of a death hoax last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
The name-dropping may well continue when cross-examination continues Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I can’t mention anything about this town without Ella name-dropping someone she knows.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
