name dropping
the act of inserting the name of any obscure cultural inst-tution into a conversation in an effort to accelerate the building of rapport with someone, or to make one’s self appear to be more important. typically considered by intelligent people to be a negative habit.
here is an example of name dropping in context.
“i totally saw this guy i used to work with at the bright eyes show last tuesday!”
with the intended response being:
“woah, you listen to bright eyes!?”
one more example
“i was getting off the train and my don delillo book fell right out of my bag and onto the tracks!!!”
referring to someone who is popular or famous in order to let the other person know that you yourself are popular and actually have friends. the event being described is usually a lie, or the story was exaggerated. most of the time name dropping is used by people who think they are cool, but are not.
can become very hazardous to one’s mental and sometimes physical health.
julio: “i was just chilling with my boy will smith, and we h-lla partied and sh-t.”
matt: “did you really dude? that makes you h-lla cool.”
louis: “shaaam, i think you’re just name dropping.”
mentioning someone (usually ‘famous’) in a conversation to imply that you are best friends with said person in lame hope of appearing cool by -ssociation
cubix the c-nt: i couldn’t possibly answer that, i would get a grilling from ronnie or arthur (as he browses these forums) or a avi, ha ha. i lie i love to b-m lee blackwell on weekends.
name dropping is used to inflate one’s stature in a conversation by linking oneself to a famous person or situation. this is sometimes done while talking about something completely different. the names are just “dropped” in there. some attempts are more subtle than others but it is basically annoying.
i see those hats everywhere now. when i was at the inauguration for obama they were all over the place. but when i met rupaul at that charity party last month he said they are on their way out. and good riddance too!
did you catch the name dropping in that conversation about hats? so subtle…
Read Also:
- namie amuro
one’s ability to kick the plastic out of ayumi hamasaki utada hikaru is such a namie amuro namei amuro is such a namie amuro namie is one of the top j-panese pop artist. her j-panese name is amuro namie because the j-panese place the last name first. she is an excelent singer with amazing music […]
- Mark Levin
ultra-conservative blowhard who has a radio show and writes books. an old, bald man who blames liberals and democrats. a jack-ss. “did you hear mark levin’s radio show the other night?” “no, he’s a jack-ss neocon who is not objective.”
- OTTF
over the top fan lexy: emma has one direction t-shirts, one direction pencils, cardboard cut-outs of the boys and she even has the one direction dolls! macy: d-mn! she’s an ottf! one t-t t-t f-ck. describes a woman who’s br–sts are so big that one of them alone can envelop a c-ck. “did you see […]
- feign
to pretend, falsify he feigned to be what he was not. to want something really really bad ever since i f-cked that girl, i’ve been feigning for that p-ssy. an insane word used by rappers to mean anything there is no word for already. “all in the club spitting game in my white tee i […]
- match down
when some bros get together to smoke up…i bring a qtr you bring a qtr and we match down and smoke up…i bring a half, you bring a half…etc match down, eveybody kicks in the same amout and then its a smoke down