dropper

English

Etymology

From drop +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒp.ə/

• Audio (Berkshire, UK)):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɔp.ə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑ.pɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

Noun

dropper (plural droppers)

1. A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
   • 1964, Heroin (song) by The Velvet Underground (band)

     'Cause when the blood begins to flow

     When it shoots up the dropper's neck

2. One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.

   The dropper left the suitcase with the bomb next to the garbage can.

   • 1975, Alison M. Abel, Popular party games (page 11)

     The child with the letter runs around the outside of the ring, repeating the words over and over again, and at one point drops the letter behind one of the players, who must pick it up and chase the dropper.

3. (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
4. (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
5. (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
6. A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
7. (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
8. (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
   • 1969, Criminologist (issue 11, page 123)

     Thus an American police chief discussing the 'cheque-droppers', then peculiar to his side of the Atlantic, who were taking a toll estimated at […] Over the years, forgery has tended to be an amateur operation — a crime of opportunity.

   • 1973, Arthur J. La Bern, Noël C. Browne, Haigh: the mind of a murderer (page 39)

     […] 'dropper' — the person who presents the cheque at the bank or elsewhere — who takes the risk. […] On the other hand, 'kite droppers' usually work in teams.

9. (tennis, informal) A drop shot.

Translations

utensil

• Catalan: comptagotes m
• Finnish: pipetti (fi)
• French: compte-goutte (fr) m
• Italian: contagocce (it) m
• Portuguese: conta-gotas m
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• Russian: пипе́тка (ru) f (pipétka)
• Spanish: cuentagotas (es) m, gotero (es) m
• Swedish: pipett (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamatak

one who drops something

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• Swedish: tappare c

software component

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fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly

• Irish: titimeán m
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• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• predrop

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French

Alternative forms

• droper

Etymology

From English drop + -er (verbal infinitive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɔ.pe/

• Audio:

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Verb

dropper

1. (transitive, golf) to drop (a golf ball in a position other than it has landed)
2. (transitive, colloquial) to drop (to forget, cease talking about)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dropper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dropper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	droppant /dʁɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		droppé /dʁɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	droppe /dʁɔp/	droppes /dʁɔp/	droppe /dʁɔp/	droppons /dʁɔ.pɔ̃/	droppez /dʁɔ.pe/	droppent /dʁɔp/
	imperfect	droppais /dʁɔ.pɛ/	droppais /dʁɔ.pɛ/	droppait /dʁɔ.pɛ/	droppions /dʁɔ.pjɔ̃/	droppiez /dʁɔ.pje/	droppaient /dʁɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	droppai /dʁɔ.pe/	droppas /dʁɔ.pa/	droppa /dʁɔ.pa/	droppâmes /dʁɔ.pam/	droppâtes /dʁɔ.pat/	droppèrent /dʁɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	dropperai /dʁɔ.pʁe/	dropperas /dʁɔ.pʁa/	droppera /dʁɔ.pʁa/	dropperons /dʁɔ.pʁɔ̃/	dropperez /dʁɔ.pʁe/	dropperont /dʁɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dropperais /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/	dropperais /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/	dropperait /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/	dropperions /dʁɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	dropperiez /dʁɔ.pə.ʁje/	dropperaient /dʁɔ.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	droppe /dʁɔp/	droppes /dʁɔp/	droppe /dʁɔp/	droppions /dʁɔ.pjɔ̃/	droppiez /dʁɔ.pje/	droppent /dʁɔp/
	imperfect2	droppasse /dʁɔ.pas/	droppasses /dʁɔ.pas/	droppât /dʁɔ.pa/	droppassions /dʁɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	droppassiez /dʁɔ.pa.sje/	droppassent /dʁɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	droppe /dʁɔp/	—	droppons /dʁɔ.pɔ̃/	droppez /dʁɔ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “dropper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

dropper

1. present tense of droppe