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Noun Concept
Categories: Authority, Figures of speech, Relevance fallacies, Names, Professional ethics
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name-dropping  name-check  name-checked  name-drop  name drop
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The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener WordNet 3.0
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The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Name-dropping is the practice of naming or alluding to important or famous people and institutions within a conversation, story, song, online identity, or other communication in order to subtly indicate one's association with them. Wikipedia
The practice of casually mentioning famous or important people or the titles of their works, subtly implying familiarity or association, in order to impress others. Wiktionary
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The hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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name-check, name-checked, name-drop, name drop, name dropping, namecheck, Namechecked, namechecking, namedropping

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