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drop
noun- in espionage or a criminal enterprise, a place where goods, documents or money is left to be picked up later by a confederate US, 1922
- Sometimes the stuff is brought in direct, while at other times a “drop” is made at an outlying area. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 27, 1960
- “The drop is where we stash the hot car until it’s needed[.]” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 118, 1962
- There’s the neighborhood cop at the numbers drop / Shaking down the run. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 162, 1976
- It was a drop. It was a pass. It was a payoff to Ray Sharkey here. this City Hall Pimp you got yourself here is a shrewd sonofabitch. He wouldn’t take the payoff where somebody could see. He took the payoff where everybody could see. — Robert Campbell, Boneyards, p. 192, 1992
- a place where stolen goods or other criminal material may be temporarily stored US, 1922
- I laid these things on him for letting me use his pad as a drop. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 24, 1973
- The owner was a horse lover and gambler, and used the store as a bookie drop. — James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon, p. 54, 1984
- a bribe UK, 1931
- He knows me so I reckon he’s after a drop so I put it to him and he only fucking ’as me for that too, doesn’t he? — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 125, 1974
- in horse racing, a cash-handling error that favours the racetrack US
- — Bob and Barbara Freeman, Wanta Bet?, p. 289, 1982
- the place where players who are invited to an illegal dice game are told where the game will be held US
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua Cosa Nostra”
- the ingestion of a drug US
- “Poor Chessman”–he muttered, still slight zonked from a late night mesc drop[.] — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 41, 1975
- LSD UK
From the verb sense (to consume drugs), especially as “drop acid”. - Street names [...] cheer, dots, drop, flash[.] — James Kay and Julian Cohen, The Parents’ Complete Guide to Young People and Drugs, p. 141, 1998
- an attractive woman AUSTRALIA
Mimicking the language of wine connoisseurs. - Dennis and Pat knew a couple of “fabulous drops” that they were going “ter take ter the pictures”. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 46, 1957
- Second, Frosty Snow ain’t told nobody but me what luscious drops they is. — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 137, 1960
- Wow, he croaked, that’s what I really call a taut drop! He could still just faintly savour the intoxicating perfume. — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 31, 1965
- the act of execution by hanging UK
Derives from: “the new drop a contrivance for executing felons at Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops from under them” (Francis Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796). The condemned prisoner would then “drop” to the end of a rope. Also recorded as “the last drop”. - There was a chap in the death cell waiting to get topped, and it comes to the morning where he is going to get the drop. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 31, 1958
- an orphan US
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 48, 1970
- in a casino, the amount of money taken in from betting customers US, 1935
- He must know that Frank Sinatra will raise the “drop” of the casino more than any other entertainer. — Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas, p. 175, 1977
- As soon as he took over, he doubled the fuckin’ drop. — Casino, 1995
- the shortening of a military tour of duty US
- Most soldiers’ conversations centered around the Army’s policy on “drops.” A “drop” was a curtailment of the normal tour for any number of bureaucratic reasons. — J.D. Coleman, Incursion, p. 110, 1991
▶ get the drop on; have the drop on
to get, or have, an advantage over someone US, 1867
Originally, and still, “to be quicker drawing a gun than your opponent”.- Wasps pinch one, creeping imperceptibly slowly in a line to get the drop on the attacking side. — The Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2004
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