Drop
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Drop, DROP, drops or DROPS may refer to:
- Drop (liquid) or droplet, a small volume of liquid
- Eye drops, saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes
- Drop (unit), a unit of measure of volume
- Falling (physics), allowing an object to fall or drop
- Drop, or topographic prominence, the height of a hill above its surroundings
Computers and technology
[edit]- Drop (SQL), a command in SQL queries to remove an existing database, table, index, or view
- Drop (telecommunication), the portion of a device directly connected to the internal station facilities
- Don't Route Or Peer (DROP) list, a list of spam sources
- Drops (app), a language learning app
Confectionery
[edit]- Drops (confectionery), a general term for small, round sweets
- Lemon drop (candy), a hard-sugar, lemon-flavored sweet
- Hershey's Drops, chocolate sweets based on the Hershey bar
- London drops, a Swedish/Finnish sugar-coated liquorice sweet
- Drop (Eng. Salty liquorice), a common Dutch sweet
- Cough drop, or throat lozenge, a medicated confectionery
Sports
[edit]- Drops Cycling Team, a British women's professional cycling team
- Drop (boxing), a type of punch used in boxing
- Drop kick, a type of kick in various forms of football and rugby
- Drop goal, a way of scoring points in rugby
- Bat drop, a calculation used to regulate baseball bats
- Drop ball (disambiguation)
- Drop shot (disambiguation)
Music
[edit]- Drop (music), a section in music where the music will crescendo to a climax, pause briefly, then resume
- Needle drop (DJing), a technique used by DJs to cue music quickly
- Drops, a J-Pop voice acting group under the label Starchild
- Drop, a term, used as a verb or noun, to refer to a music release
Albums
[edit]- Drop (The Shamen album), 1987
- Drop (Bride album), 1995
- Drop (Gavin Harrison & 05Ric album), 2007
- Drop (Thee Oh Sees album), 2014
- D.R.O.P., a 1989 album by ZELDA
Songs
[edit]- "Drop" (The Pharcyde song), 1995
- "Drop" (Timbaland & Magoo song), 2001
- "Drop" (Rich Boy song), 2009
- "Drop" (Dallas Smith song), 2019
- "Drop", a song by Blue October from the album Consent to Treatment, 2000
- "Drop", a song by Chloe x Halle from the EP Sugar Symphony, 2016
- "Drop", a song by Robert Forster from the album Calling from a Country Phone, 1993
- "Drop", a 1998 song by Kenji and Artofficial, early aliases for Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn respectively
- "Drop", a 2006 song by American jazz artist, Plunky
- "Drop", a 2008 song by Ying Yang Twins
- "Drop", a 2022 song by Khalisol which represented New Mexico in the American Song Contest
Other uses
[edit]- Drop (b-boy move), a breakdancing technique
- Drop (company), an American e-commerce company
- Drop (loyalty program), a Canadian coalition customer loyalty program
- Drop (policy debate), an argument that goes unanswered
- Drop, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in east-central Poland
- Ball drop, an annual event held every New Year's Eve in New York City's Times Square
- Dead drop, a method of passing items or information within espionage tradecraft
- Voltage drop, a decrease in voltage across electrical devices in a circuit
- Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or Deferred Retirement Option Program
- Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System (DROPS), a family of logistics vehicles operated by the British Army