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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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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

Priced at $795,000 through Doreyrealestate.com; enter PABU2057204 in the search function, found under the “View Listings” drop-down menu.

From Washington Times Oct. 5, 2023

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

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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