namedrop

VERB
  1. refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
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  • While I'm shamelessly namedropping, I might as well let it be known that I also once met Kelly Woan, wife of Nottingham Forest legend Ian.5.28pm: Guardian newshound Jamie Jackson is back with more news on Bobby Zamora's non-move to QPR. Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened
  • 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
  • Oh, that Lindsay Waters -- whatta blog-namedropper he is. Ferule & Fescue
  • I remember having lunch with TBogg and Digby last year namedropper. Firedoglake » 2005 Koufax Winners
  • 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
  • Conservatives have so often cried "socialism!" that it's now nothing more than a bygone has-been of a warning - a cheap and lazy namedrop, a wilted way to self-identify as a bootstraps-and-heartland sort of citizen. FITSNews
  • You need to be able to be influential without being a namedropper. Archive 2009-06-01
  • He's a kind of maleficent Candide, who blackmails, lies, betrays, cheats, fucks, namedrops, marries and blunders his way to the top – and assumes no one will notice. Capital Pundits Parodied: An Anti-Mensch's Faux Memoirs
  • 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
  • Evidently aware that namedropping is so Nineties, the oleaginous journalist has mastered the millennial equivalent - place-dropping.
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