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name-dropping
DEFINITIONS OF:
name-dropping
1
n
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”
Type of:
mention
,
reference
a remark that calls attention to something or someone
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