Name-dropping

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  name-dropping \name-dropping\ n.
     The practice of casually mentioning important people in order
     to impress one's listener.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  name-dropping
       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"