drop set

American  

[drahp set] / ˈdrɑp ˌsɛt /

Or dropset

noun

drop sets plural

1. in weightlifting and bodybuilding, a process of repeating a particular exercise until muscle failure occurs and then reducing the weight or resistance incrementally while continuing to repeat the exercise.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• drop sets
  plural

Example Sentences

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drop set

Head only scored 30 more runs but that drop set the tone.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

The report showed US companies shed 32,000 jobs in November, payroll firm ADP said, in a surprise drop set to firm up expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

In the court proceeding Friday, prosecutors outlined how Ms. Toebbe served as a lookout while her husband deposited information in a dead drop set up by the F.B.I.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022

It is the worst one-day fall ever, eclipsing the 10% drop set off by the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he said he had observed I was sometimes hoarse—a little roopy was his exact expression—and it should be, every drop, set apart to the purpose he had mentioned.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles