Synonyms

drop-down menu

British

noun

a menu that appears on a computer screen when its title is selected and remains on display until dismissed

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Example Sentences

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Type “Mick Cronin” into a YouTube search and one of the auto-populated options on a drop-down menu is “Mick Cronin mad.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2024

To donate to the Safe Passage team, visit positiveplace.org/donate and select “SE Network/Safe Passage” from the drop-down menu.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2023

A drop-down menu on Temu's website confirms Japan is one of the countries it now ships to.

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2023

From a drop-down menu, you can pick which documents have those interactions and add those to the prompt.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

But Art3mis’s features didn’t look as though they’d been selected from a beauty drop-down menu on some avatar creation template.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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