"hard drop" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hard drops [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hard drop (plural hard drops)
  1. A manual downward motion of a piece in the video game Tetris that makes it land immediately (that is, within only one frame). Categories (topical): Tetris, Video games

Inflected forms

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