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  drop-by

  noun

  a short and generally somewhat informal visit.
• drop by
  drop by

  Also,. Pay a brief, casual, and usually unannounced visit. For example, I asked her to drop by whenever she was in the neighborhood, or Joan loves to have friends drop in, or We'd love to drop over but we haven't time on this trip. The first term dates from the first half of the 1900s; drop in is from the mid-1600s and drop over from the late 1800s.

drop-by

American  

[drahp-bahy] / ˈdrɑpˌbaɪ /

noun

drop-bys plural

1. a short and generally somewhat informal visit.

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drop by Idioms  

1. Also,. Pay a brief, casual, and usually unannounced visit. For example, I asked her to drop by whenever she was in the neighborhood, or Joan loves to have friends drop in, or We'd love to drop over but we haven't time on this trip. The first term dates from the first half of the 1900s; drop in is from the mid-1600s and drop over from the late 1800s.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• drop-bys
  plural

Example Sentences

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One of Fitts’ sons, Christian, shared a 57-second video on TikTok, offering a behind-the-scenes look at Biden’s drop-by, including the president admiring photos on the family’s fridge and his limo pulling out of their driveway.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

After lunch, Pelosi pops into a drop-by meeting with some of her San Francisco constituents, then heads back to her office to catch President Biden’s speech outlining his budget proposal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

“She started having impromptu lunches there. And it immediately became a real drop-by place in the art community. There was always someone there.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2022

Still, that didn’t lessen the annoyance of what Kimmel declared the “cardinal sin of quarantine”: the random, unannounced neighborly drop-by that you can’t escape, since it’s not like you’re out on the town.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2020

The 60s poets they go on to write like Frank OHara: fewer drop-by parties, meaner somehow.

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

Burry previously had options that paid off on a steeper drop by January.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Orozco estimated that the nearby fire had caused sales to drop by 70% over the past week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

So I always drop by there and spend way too much money on a book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

With not enough people entering the labour market to replace them, the working-age population will drop by 4.3 million by 2036, to 51 million, a fall of some seven percent, it said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

‘This did not drop by chance: it was cast away as a token to any that might follow. I think Pippin ran away from the trail for that purpose.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

A small, no-reservations-required lounge area is designed for pop-ins and drop-bys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

As of this writing, it’s logged 194 house finch visits, 83 California towhee drop-bys, 5 squirrel sorties and a lone pine siskin pop in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

Maybe your friends and family call just to chat, and you welcome these telephonic drop-bys even when they are not invited or forewarned.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022

The candidate has favored meet-and-greets and sporting-event drop-bys that were not widely advertised ahead of time over the kinds of rallies he is holding in the campaign’s final days.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up.

From Time Magazine Archive

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