DROP BY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drop by mean? 

• DROP BY (verb)
  The verb DROP BY has 1 sense:

1. visit informally and spontaneously

  Familiarity information: DROP BY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROP BY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visit informally and spontaneously

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

come by; drop by; drop in

Context example:

We frequently drop by the neighbors' house for a cup of coffee

Hypernyms (to "drop by" is one way to...):

call; call in; visit (pay a brief visit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

In medicine, a method used to put a liquid into the body slowly or drop by drop.

(Instillation, NCI Dictionary)

A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Analyzing the simulations, the research team found that Pinatubo's eruption caused the oceans to cool and sea levels to drop by about 6 millimeters.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

To add slowly, drop by drop.

(Instill, NCI Thesaurus)

Over time, their systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) could drop by eight to 14 points, which significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.

(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)

Mort Dieu! cried the bowman, there is a bucketful or more of my blood over in France, but it was all spilled in hot fight, and I should think twice before I drew it drop by drop as these friars are doing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bottle that has a device specifically intended for the application of a liquid in a drop by drop manner, or a device intended for the delivery of an exact dose (e.g., calibrated dropper for oral medications).

(Dropper Bottle, NCI Thesaurus)