Drop In

Definition: Drop In

Drop In

Verb

1. Visit informally and spontaneously; "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee".

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Literature

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Synonyms: Drop In

Arrival

Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.

Insertion

Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).

Smallness

Nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction; (part); drop in the ocean.

Sociality

Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

Unimportance

Minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.

Crosswords: Drop In

Awfully decent of you to drop in today (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

Feel free to drop in! (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm)

Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn. (references; author: unknown)

A Drop in the Ocean (1985)

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Books

• Drop in (reference)

• Last Chance High: How Girls and Boys Drop in and Out of Alternative Schools (reference)

• The Crime Drop in America (reference)

• The Drop in My Drink: The Story of Water on Our Planet (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Diamond Advantix APS Film Drive, 2400 Drop In Loading (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Martyrs to duty. Now, James, take good care of the office! If Mr. Boss should drop in, tell him ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

At high doses of PCP, there is a drop in blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiration. (references)

Shock may occur, with a rapid pulse, drop in blood pressure, and difficulty in producing urine. (references)

Muscle cramps and hypotension, or a sudden drop in blood pressure, are two common side effects. (references)

Business

The growth in local production cushioned the drop in total market levels (six percent) and the drop in imports (10 percent). (references)

Despite a drop in oil prices, 1997 nominal GDP grew by 1.2 percent, to more than 176 billion dirhams (about 48 billion US dollars). (references)

These conditions and the political instability which delayed the initiation of major projects, caused an estimated 50 percent drop in total imports. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

FOOD EXPORTS WERE WEAK, WITH A SHARP DROP IN OLIVE OIL SALES. (references)

Austria

The drop in 2000 was probably an exception of the general trend. (references)

Brazil

Under such uncertainties, sales of new homes will probably drop in 2001. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

They point to the significant drop in crime in the region. (references)

Algeria

The organization stated that there had been "a significant drop in the level of violence and killings, and the reports of arbitrary arrests, prolonged incommunicado detention, torture, disappearances, and unfair trials have also diminished significantly." However, Amnesty International maintained that many serious concerns had not been addressed, including resolving past abuses such as disappearances and extrajudicial killings. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

In 2001, U.S. exports to Algeria decreased by 12 percent from 2000, mostly because of a drop in grain exports (see next paragraph). (references)

Trade

Egypt

Prior to issuance of Ministerial Decree 99 of 1994, free-of-charge compensatory shipments, meant to make up for losses caused by a drop in the international price of imported goods between the contract date and the time of shipment, were considered illegal imports. (references)

Women

Djibouti

In 1997 some health workers reported a precipitous drop in the number of hospitalizations related to FGM in Djibouti City. (references)

Worker Rights

Albania

Two major federations act as umbrella organizations for most of the country's unions: The Independent Confederation of Trade Unions of Albania (membership around 75,000) and the Albanian Confederation of Trade Unions (membership around 100,000). Both organizations experienced another drop in membership during the year due to harsh economic reforms that have left many individuals unemployed. (references)

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Expressions using "drop in": a drop in a bucket ♦ a drop in the ocean ♦ big drop in prices ♦ drop in on ♦ drop in on smb. ♦ drop in orders ♦ drop in prices ♦ drop in smb.'s lap ♦ drop in tax revenues ♦ drop in the birthrate ♦ drop in the ocean ♦ drop in value ♦ fall drop in series. Additional references.

Albanian

ndalem (break off, call on, drop off, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop), bëj një vizitë (look in, pay a visit, wait upon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام بزيارة غير متوقعة (drop in on), ‏إنخفاض في الأسعار (big drop in prices). (various references)

Bulgarian 

точим се, капя (distil, dribble, drip, drop, gutter, leak, ooze, run, seep, weep), навестявам (drop in on, haunt, look in, repair, resort, visit), помъквам (come along, drag along, take along, trail after). (various references)

Chinese 

上門 (visit). (various references)

Czech

vhodit (insert, slot). (various references)

Danish

under stoerkningen af den sejgrede zone kan metallets svind indenfor et sluttet volumen fremkalde et vist undertryk,der kan udloese en let gasudvikling (during solidification of the segregated zone, the contraction of the metal in a closed volume may create a certain drop in pressure which can provoke a slight release of gas), kursfald (drop in the rate), kaskade (cascade, cascade drop, cascade fall, fall drop in series, full fall in series, ladder of drops, ladder of falls, steepped drop, stepped fall). (various references)

Dutch

aanwippen (pop in). (various references)

Esperanto

viziteti (pop in). (various references)

Finnish

poiketa jonkun luo, käväistä (drop in on a person, pay a visit to). (various references)

French

passer. (various references)

German

Störsignal (chatter, glitch, interferer, interfering signal). (various references)

Greek 

πετάγομαι να δω κάποιο. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלשל (bring down, insert, let down, lower), לסור (depart from, deviate, digress, go away, leave off, move, pass away, step aside, turn, turn aside). (various references)

Hungarian

beugrik (dived, dove, dump in, jump in, pop in, to dive, to stop by, to stop in, tumble into). (various references)

Indonesian

singgah (call at, to call somewhere, transit), mampir (call at, come by, look in). (various references)

Italian

Durante la solidificazione della zona segregata il ritiro del metallo in un ambiente chiuso puo produrre una depressione che puo causare un leggero svolgimento di gas (during solidification of the segregated zone, the contraction of the metal in a closed volume may create a certain drop in pressure which can provoke a slight release of gas), scala di salti di fondo (cascade drop, cascade fall, fall drop in series, full fall in series, ladder of drops, ladder of falls, steepped drop, stepped fall), salto in serie (cascade drop, cascade fall, fall drop in series, full fall in series, ladder of drops, ladder of falls, steepped drop, stepped fall), crollo delle quotazioni (drop in quotations), caduta del corso (drop in the rate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寄る (to approach, to drop in, to visit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちよる (to drop in for a short visit, to stop by), すずめのなみ� (drop in the bucket, insignificant), きゅうぎゅうのいちもう (drop in the bucket, mere fraction), まい�"む (to drop in, to happen to), よる (evening, night, to approach, to be caused by, to be due to, to choose, to come from, to depend on, to drop in, to lean on, to rest against, to select, to visit), てぬき (a drop in activity, omitting crucial steps). (various references)

Pig Latin

opdray inay.(various references)

Portuguese

visitar sem avisar (drop by, drop over). (various references)

Romanian

pica (drip, drop, fall, flunk, pop in, spin), intra pe rând. (various references)

Russian 

зайти (call in, turn in), забрести (wander), забегать (call on), появляться в/ падение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upasti (buck, crash, fall into, intrude, invade, punctuate), svratiti (call on, come by, look in, stop off), navratiti (look in, look up, stop off). (various references)

Spanish

entrar un momento (drop by, pop in). (various references)

Swedish

titta in (come round, drop by, look in, pop in). (various references)

Turkish

damlamak (blow in, come in suddenly, dribble, drip, drop, drop around, fall off, happen in, trickle, weep), uğramak (call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, drop around, drop in on, experience, fall into, incur, look up, meet, put in an appearance, receive, run against, run in, stop by, stop in, sustain, touch at, undergo, visit), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out). (various references)

Ukrainian

завітати (stop by), зазирнути. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: orpin, poind, prion.

-2 letters: dorp, drip, drop, inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, pion, pirn, pond, porn, prod, rind.

-3 letters: din, dip, don, dor, ion, nip, nod, nor, pin, pod, poi, pro, rid, rin, rip, rod.

-4 letters: do, id, in, no, od, on, op, or, pi.

+1 letter: padroni, poniard.

+2 letters: dipteron, drooping, dropping, drypoint, inpoured, paranoid, phoronid, poniards, prisoned, prodding, propined, pyranoid, pyrenoid, raindrop.

+3 letters: conspired, deploring, deporting, disproven, dripstone, droppings, drypoints, endorphin, incorpsed, paranoids, pardoning, parodying, perdition, phoronids, pinafored, pinedrops, pioneered, pondering, poniarded, portioned, powdering, precoding, predation, preordain, princedom, producing, properdin, provident, providing, purloined, pyrenoids, raindrops, rhodopsin, terpenoid, windproof.