The act of inserting the name of any obscure cultural institution into a conversation in an effort to accelerate the building of rapport with someone, or to make one's self appear to be more important. Typically considered by intelligent people to be a negative habit.
Here is an example of name dropping in context.
"I totally saw this guy I used to work with at the Bright Eyes show last tuesday!"
With the intended response being:
"woah, you listen to Bright Eyes!?"
One more example
"I was getting off the train and my Don Delillo book fell right out of my bag and onto the tracks!!!"
"I totally saw this guy I used to work with at the Bright Eyes show last tuesday!"
With the intended response being:
"woah, you listen to Bright Eyes!?"
One more example
"I was getting off the train and my Don Delillo book fell right out of my bag and onto the tracks!!!"
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