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Definition of Drop by
1. Verb. Visit informally and spontaneously. "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee"
Definition of Drop by
1. Verb. to visit informally and spontaneously ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop By
Literary usage of Drop by
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"drop by drop fills the tub. Fr. 2. drop by drop the lake is drained. 3. The whole
ocean is made up of little drops. Dropping. 1. Constant dropping wears the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1877)
"Drops of a constant size were obtained with water and alcohol by allowing the
liquid to fall, drop by drop, from the end of a vertical capillary tube. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"... boiled with about ten times its weight of water, and sulphuric acid is added
drop by drop till the solution becomes turbid. On continuing the boiling, ..."
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