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单词 namedrop
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When you try to impress someone by mentioning a famous person you once met, you namedrop. To namedrop is looked down upon, so if you're cousins with Beyoncé, keep it to yourself!
If a celebrity's name comes up naturally in conversation, it's fine, but if you namedrop by artificially inserting the famous name — bringing up the story of the movie star you saw at the library over and over, for example — it can become annoying. Namedropping is a way of showing off, trying to impress someone or prove your own superiority.
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Lawmakers cite her; celebrities namedrop her; fringe movements style themselves her heirs; scores of Twitter users swipe her visage as their avatar.
Salon(Oct 06, 2014)
You don't determine whether you want to work with someone based on what they can do for you or how much they can namedrop.
The Guardian(Mar 07, 2013)
And that’s when we decided to get into the heated exchange, and I decided to namedrop.
Forbes(Dec 29, 2011)
v refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
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advert, bring up, cite, mention, name, refer
make reference to
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