"drop the topic" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-drop the topic.ogg [Australia] Forms: drops the topic [present, singular, third-person], dropping the topic [participle, present], dropped the topic [participle, past], dropped the topic [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} drop the topic (third-person singular simple present drops the topic, present participle dropping the topic, simple past and past participle dropped the topic)
  1. (idiomatic) To stop talking about the topic at hand. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-drop_the_topic-en-verb-DOSCDrv7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for drop the topic meaning in English (1.4kB)

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