DROP DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drop down mean? 

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

1. fall or descend to a lower place or level

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROP DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fall or descend to a lower place or level

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

drop; drop down; sink

Context example:

He sank to his knees

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

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

Verb group:

fall off; sink; slump (fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly)

drop (let fall to the ground)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drop down"):

drop open; fall open (open involuntarily)

droop; flag; sag; swag (droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness)

sag; sag down (cause to sag)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

She'll drop down the river with that theer tide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Drive us to some decent hotel, cabby, where we may have some lunch, and afterwards we shall drop down upon friend Lestrade at the police-station.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Had he moved, attempted to drop down the companion-way, I know I would have shot him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee-pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It would have been bad enough to go to her seat, and see the pitying faces of her friends, or the satisfied ones of her few enemies, but to face the whole school, with that shame fresh upon her, seemed impossible, and for a second she felt as if she could only drop down where she stood, and break her heart with crying.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Or maybe that was a dream, too, and the awakening would be the changing of the watches, when he would drop down out of his bunk in the lurching forecastle and go up on deck, under the tropic stars, and take the wheel and feel the cool tradewind blowing through his flesh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)