drop in
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drop in (third-person singular simple present drops in, present participle dropping in, simple past and past participle dropped in)
- (idiomatic) To arrive casually and unannounced, with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment.
- Synonyms: drop by, pop in, stop by, stop in
- Coordinate term: stop off
- I was in the garden covered with mud when my grandmother dropped in for a visit.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
- 1978, Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren (lyrics and music), “I Will Survive”, in Love Tracks, performed by Gloria Gaynor:
- And so you felt like droppin’ in and just expect me to be free / Well, now I'm saving all my lovin’ for someone who's lovin’ me
- (surfing) To paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding.
- 2003, Neal Miyake, “The Unwritten Rules of Surfing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], archived from the original on 14 October 2005:
- Most beginners are blissfully unaware that dropping in on someone is a cardinal sin.
- To fall in, to cave in.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXV, page 54:
- The cheeks drop in; the body bows;
Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
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- Alternative spelling of drop-in.