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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Example Sentences

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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

Once you open the link, you’ll see a drop-down menu for the four dates.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 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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