Drop

Drop may refer to:

General use

• Drop (liquid) or droplet, a small volume of liquid
  • Eye drops, saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes
• Drop (volume), a unit of measure of volume
• Falling (physics), or allowing an object to fall
• Also, in a franchise, dropping a character means that a certain character is no longer seen nor mentioned.

Sports

• Drop (boxing), a type of punch used in boxing
• Drop off, a mountain biking term
• Drop noseband, a type of noseband used first on horses at the Spanish Riding School
• Bat drop, a number (the weight in ounces minus the length in inches) used in some leagues to regulate baseball bats

Computers and technology

• Drop (telecommunication), several meanings
• DROP (SQL), a command in SQL queries to remove an existing database, table, index, or view

Types of confectionery

• Lemon drop, a sugary, lemon-flavored confectionery
• London drops, sugar-coated licorice drops sold in some Nordic countries
• Cough drop, or throat lozenge, a medicated confectionery also called a "cough drop"
• Drop, the Dutch name for sweet or salty liquorice

Music

• Needle drop (DJing), a hip-hop DJ term
• Drop (music), a section in music where the music will crescendo to a climax, pause briefly, then resume
• Drop (Bride album), 1995 work
• Drop (The Shamen album), 1987 album by The Shamen
• "Drop" (song), a track by The Pharcyde from their album Labcabincalifornia
• "Drop" (Rich Boy song), a song by Rich Boy from his second album, Buried Alive
• "Drop" (Ying Yang Twins song), a song by Ying Yang Twins
• "Drop" (Blue October song), a song by Blue October
• D.R.O.P., an album and a song by ZELDA
• Drop, a slang term, used as a verb, to refer to an album or single's release (music)
• DROPS, a JPOP voice actor group consisting of Mariko Kouda, Tomoko Kaneda, Akemi Kanda, Ai Nonaka, and Ryōko Shiraishi

Other uses

• Drop (breakdance move), a breakdance move
• Dead drop, a term used in espionage to exchange messages covertly between spies
• Pigeon drop, a confidence trick modeled on the dead drop
• Drop, Masovian Voivodeship, district in east-central Poland
• Prince Rupert's Drop, curiosity made out of molten glass
• Drops (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character), a character in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• DROPS, or Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System, logistic vehicles used by the British Army
• Drop in clothing, the difference between chest size and trouser waist size measured in inch.^[1]

See also

• Dropout (disambiguation)

References

1. ^ Determining Your Suit Size

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