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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends. Someone who namedrops.

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  • noun a person who name-drops

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  • noun someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends

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Examples

  • We'll have a bit more later on the PDC in general, but at the risk of being called a namedropper again, today I had ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • You need to be able to be influential without being a namedropper.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • You need to be able to be influential without being a namedropper.

    Margaret WHO as Commons speaker? Thatsnews 2009

  • Buckley was a bon vivant with luxurious tastes, a prolific author of best-selling novels as well as serious nonfiction, a sportsman most gleeful on icy slopes and navigating through a gale, a world-class namedropper, a refined musicologist (and self-taught harpsichord player) and a lover of big words (a sesquipedalian, as he might say).

    He Knew He Was Right 2008

  • See, I only know her as the author of my favourite book - I've never even read her other ones because I'm frightened they might be rubbish and so I wouldn't appreciate namedropper in the same way again : But after writing this post I thought I'd actually do some research and it seems like she's REALLY famous and I'm a moron for not knowing it sooner. sigh.

    Namedropper Fathorse 2008

  • Oh, that Lindsay Waters -- whatta blog-namedropper he is.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • I don't want to be a namedropper, so I'm not going list all the terrific skiffy writers who attended.

    Blue Heaven 2007 Raunchy Limerick Challenge shunn 2007

  • I don't want to be a namedropper, so I'm not going list all the terrific skiffy writers who attended.

    Blue Heaven 2007 Raunchy Limerick Challenge shunn 2007

  • I remember having lunch with TBogg and Digby last year namedropper.

    Firedoglake » 2005 Koufax Winners 2006

  • Metro will tell you what a horrible namedropper I am, but click back to February and see for yourself.

    Boris Johnson on webcameron « raincoaster 2006

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