name-dropping

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Noun name-dropping has 1 sense

name-dropping - the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener; "the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it"
--₁ is a kind of mention, reference

Verb name-drop has 1 sense

namedrop - refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
--₁ is one way to mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

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