Drop Explained

Drop, DROP, drops or DROPS may refer to:

• Drop (liquid) or droplet, a small volume of liquid
  • Eye drops, saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes
• Drop (unit), a unit of measure of volume
• Falling (physics), allowing an object to fall or drop
  • Free fall
• Drop, or topographic prominence, the height of a hill above its surroundings

Computers and technology

• Drop (SQL), a command in SQL queries to remove an existing database, table, index, or view
• Drop (telecommunication), the portion of a device directly connected to the internal station facilities
• Don't Route Or Peer (DROP) list, a list of spam sources
• Drops (app), a language learning app

Confectionery

• Drops (confectionery), a general term for small, round sweets
• Lemon drop (candy), a hard-sugar, lemon-flavored sweet
• Hershey's Drops, chocolate sweets based on the Hershey bar
• London drops, a Swedish/Finnish sugar-coated liquorice sweet
• Drop (Eng. Salty liquorice), a common Dutch sweet
• Cough drop, or throat lozenge, a medicated confectionery

Sports

• Drops Cycling Team, a British women's professional cycling team
• Drop (boxing), a type of punch used in boxing
• Drop kick, a type of kick in various forms of football and rugby
• Drop goal, a way of scoring points in rugby
• Bat drop, a calculation used to regulate baseball bats
• Drop ball (disambiguation)
• Drop shot (disambiguation)

Music

• Drop (music), a section in music where the music will crescendo to a climax, pause briefly, then resume
• Needle drop (DJing), a technique used by DJs to cue music quickly
• Drops, a J-Pop voice acting group under the label Starchild
• Drop, a term, used as a verb or noun, to refer to a music release

Albums

• Drop (The Shamen album), 1987
• Drop (Bride album), 1995
• Drop (Gavin Harrison & 05Ric album), 2007
• Drop (Thee Oh Sees album), 2014
• D.R.O.P., a 1989 album by ZELDA

Songs

• "Drop" (The Pharcyde song), 1995
• "Drop" (Timbaland & Magoo song), 2001
• "Drop" (Rich Boy song), 2009
• "Drop" (Dallas Smith song), 2019
• "Drop", a song by Blue October from the album Consent to Treatment, 2000
• "Drop", a song by Chloe x Halle from the EP Sugar Symphony, 2016
• "Drop", a song by Robert Forster from the album Calling from a Country Phone, 1993
• "Drop", a 1998 song by Kenji and Artofficial, early aliases for Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn respectively
• "Drop", a 2006 song by American jazz artist, Plunky
• "Drop", a 2008 song by Ying Yang Twins
• "Drop", a 2022 song by Khalisol which represented New Mexico in the American Song Contest

Other uses

• Drop (b-boy move), a breakdancing technique
• Drop (company), an American e-commerce company
• Drop (loyalty program), a Canadian coalition customer loyalty program
• Drop (policy debate), an argument that goes unanswered
• Drop, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in east-central Poland
• Ball drop, an annual event held every New Year's Eve in New York City's Times Square
• Dead drop, a method of passing items or information within espionage tradecraft
• Voltage drop, a decrease in voltage across electrical devices in a circuit
• Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or Deferred Retirement Option Program
• Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System (DROPS), a family of logistics vehicles operated by the British Army

See also

• • • The Drop (disambiguation)
• Dewdrop (disambiguation)
• Drip (disambiguation)
• Droplets (disambiguation)
• Dropout (disambiguation)
• Dropped (disambiguation)
• Dropper
• Dropping (disambiguation)