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Definition of Drop in
1. Verb. Visit informally and spontaneously. "We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee"
Definition of Drop in
1. Noun. One who arrives unannounced or without an appointment. ¹
2. Noun. (surfing) the act of dropping in (see verb below). Often hyphenated '''drop-in'''. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic) To arrive unannounced or with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment. ¹
4. Verb. (surfing) to paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop In
Literary usage of Drop in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... since the time of the drop in the field varied in these observations from 380
seconds to 6.7 seconds, it will be seen that the resultant moving force ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The observer can, after a little practice draw from memory on each occasion the
drop in the form in which he has seen it. It will be seen that the process ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"Such an animal then swims across the drop in the new direction till it again ...
Other Paramecia enter the drop in the same way and are imprisoned like the ..."
4. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"The first message, from North to Secord, established the essential elements of
the drop: The unit to which we wanted to drop in the southern quadrant of ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1864)
"Further, unless we know the exact shape of a drop in all cases, we are not in a
position to deduce the size of the surface of cohesion from the drop-size or ..."
6. A Course in Electrical Engineering by Chester Laurens Dawes (1922)
"In a direct-current generator, the induced armature voltage is obtained by adding
numerically the IR drop in the armature and the terminal ..."
7. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"1, OC is the external current vector, OB the PD vector. If there is only a single
alternator, then, neglecting the resistance drop, the inductance drop in ..."
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