Name: The 7 Meanings of “DROP” in English
Uploaded: 2025-07-22T17:52:42.000Z
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Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I think, yeah, probably, okay, yeah.

Oh god, don't you hate when that happens?

All of a sudden, the person I was talking to, just, they're not there anymore.

In English, we say that the call dropped.

So, this literally doesn't mean that I dropped something, although I did.

This word, drop, in slang, has a few meanings.

You probably know to drop something means you hold it, just like I did with my phone.

And if you drop something, so you let go, and something falls.

We don't want to drop the things, just like I dropped my phone.

There's a difference between making something, something falling, and something dropping.

So if something falls, it's like, but if something drops, it's a mistake.

But in slang, we've got some crazy new meanings for you.

Maybe you've heard something like, oh, hey, Ronnie's new video on YouTube is going to drop tomorrow.

But it doesn't mean that I'm letting them go when they fall.

If you listen to the radio, which is a good idea to help with your English listening skills, you'll hear the DJ say, oh, the new album by Spongebob is going to drop tomorrow.

And you think, oh, don't drop it, it's going to break.

Maybe you have a favourite brand or designer, and they're going to drop or release a new shoe or a new line of clothing.

Oh, this perfume company's going to drop a new scent for the fall.

It doesn't mean that they're, you know...

Number five, if you release a new album or single, which means just one song, or a product, people would say Ronnie will drop her new video on YouTube.

We can use simple future, or we can also talk about the past when we use this, because slang, what you want it to be.

It can be past, it can be present, it can be future, it's up to you.

So, Ronnie will drop her new video on YouTube means I'm going to release it.

Let's go on with some more examples of dropping.

If you're fighting, bam, you knock someone over.

We would say, he dropped Kevin with one hit.

So this means she or he's fighting against Kevin, one hit, and Kevin, bonk, he drops.

He kind of just passes out and falls to the ground.

Kevin, need to do some more exercises, get up there, get up again, Kevin, let's go.

This is really popular, I hear this all the time in movies, when I'm eavesdropping on people's conversation.

Eavesdropping means I'm listening in to other people's conversations.

If I go someplace and there's other people around, I will sit silently, observe or watch and listen to what other people are talking about.

So, I'll hear people say, yeah, you know what, I'm going to drop a grand on this shirt.

So, if you drop money on a shirt, it means you're going to spend a lot of money.

Now, here's another little slang tip here.

A grand actually means, and I don't know why, 1,000 smackeroonies, $1,000.

So if someone says, I'm going to drop a grand on this shirt, it means I'm going to spend $1,000 on a shirt.

If you want to drop a grand or two, you can drop it on www.engvid.com.

When we talk about the future, we have the simple future will.

We also have the verb to be with going to, but we don't say, I'm going to drop a grand on this new shirt.

We say, I'm gonna, and this, in the long form, is I am going to, and we squeeze it all together and speak really quickly and say gonna.

So I'm going to drop a grand on this new shirt.

If you're going to take drugs, example, acid, which is LSD, or ecstasy, I don't know what drugs you people are doing.

Whatever drugs you're doing, instead of saying take, you can now be super cool and say drop.

So, for example, I could call my friend and go, hey, let's drop acid tomorrow at work.

And your friend's like, great idea, Ronnie.

You know I've got a presentation, but let's do it on acid.

Let's drop some E tomorrow before we go to the club.

I don't know if people still do E, but whatever.

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