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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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Flock has now added a drop-down menu with standardized categories modeled after the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s data-reporting system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

On the last screen, concealed behind a drop-down menu, Frontier Airlines revealed that she would have to pay a nonrefundable $23 carrier interface charge for buying her ticket online.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 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

Priced at $26.5 million through Elliman.com; enter 10 E 64 in the search box and look at the drop-down menu that will appear.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 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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