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drop someone

 

1. S(to knock someone down; to punch and knock down a person. Fred dropped Willie with one punch to the jaw.

2. Fig. to stop being friends with someone, especially with one's boyfriend or girlfriend. Bob finally dropped Jane. I don't know what he saw in her. I'm surprised that she didn't drop him first.

drop

1. tv. to kill someone or something. Lefty tried to drop the leader of the gang.

2. in. to get arrested. (Underworld.) Sam dropped, but Mr. Gutman got him off.

3. tv. to knock someone down. Jim dropped Willard with a punch to the shoulder.

4. n. a small drink of liquor; a small serving of liquor. I’ll take just another drop of that dew, if you don’t mind.

5. n. a place at which drugs, alcohol, or other contraband is left to be claimed by the recipient. They switched drops constantly just in case of discovery.

6. tv. to take a drug, specifically acid. (Drugs.) Ted dropped some stuff and went on a trip.

drop

/lower the boom

To act suddenly and forcefully to repress a practice or reprimand an offender; crack down.

See:

• a drop in the bucket
• a drop in the ocean
• a quick drop and a sudden stop
• at the drop of a hat
• bottom drops out, the
• could hear a pin drop
• don't drop the soap!
• drop
• drop (one) a line
• drop (one's) guard
• drop (something) in (someone's) lap
• drop a bollock
• drop a bomb
• drop a bombshell
• drop a bop
• drop a brick
• drop a bundle
• drop a bundle on someone
• drop a bundle on something
• drop a clanger
• drop a dime
• drop a hint
• drop a line
• drop a line and drop a few lines; drop a note
• drop across
• drop anchor
• drop around
• drop away
• drop back
• drop behind
• drop below
• drop by
• drop by (sometime)
• drop by the wayside
• drop dead
• Drop dead!
• drop down
• drop drawers
• drop everything
• drop from
• drop guard
• drop in
• drop in one's tracks
• drop in someone's lap
• Drop in sometime
• drop in the bucket
• drop in the ocean
• drop in tracks
• drop into
• drop into lap
• Drop it!
• drop like a hot brick
• drop like a hot potato
• drop like flies
• drop names
• drop off
• drop off the radar
• drop on
• drop one’s cookies
• drop one’s teeth
• drop out
• drop out of
• drop out of sight
• drop over
• drop someone
• drop someone some knowledge
• drop someone/something like a hot potato
• drop teeth
• drop the ball
• drop the F-bomb
• drop the gloves
• drop the L-bomb
• drop the mic
• drop the other shoe
• Drop the subject!
• drop the writ
• drop trou
• drop up
• Drop you!
• drop-dead
• drop-dead date
• drop-dead gorgeous
• drop-dead list
• dropped
• fall off off the radar
• fall off the map
• fit to drop
• get the drop on
• get the drop on someone
• glad you could drop by
• have the drop on (someone or something)
• hear a pin drop, can
• hot potato
• jaw drops
• let (something) drop
• let drop
• let it drop
• make (someone's) jaw drop
• mic drop
• not to touch a drop
• so quiet you could hear a pin drop
• so still you could hear a pin drop
• the bottom drops out of the market
• the penny drops
• Turn on, tune in, drop out
• wait for the other shoe to drop
• work till you drop
• work until you drop
• You could have heard a pin drop