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drop-down menu

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I click on the drop-down menu and search through my list of names for those three magical letters: Mom.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 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

Click on Land for Sale drop-down menu to find search function and enter these three words: red barn lodge.

From Washington Times May 4, 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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