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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To make a monetary gift card donation, go to www.compasshousingalliance.org/donate, and in the drop-down menu, select “holiday gift card support.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Users of Apple’s Safari, for example, can reconfigure their browser to use Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Ecosia by choosing them from a drop-down menu.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 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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