drop

ronbutters at AOL.COM ronbutters at AOL.COM
Thu Mar 10 14:35:22 UTC 2011


Perhaps related to "drop (a child)" = 'give birth'?

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On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:36:37PM +0000, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>> A blog-reader emailed me today to ask whether this sentence was good in
>> general American English (or whether it's geekspeak):
>>
>> 'Mozilla dropped the Firefox 4 release candidate for developers yesterday,
>> but as of this afternoon the release candidate is available for everyone to
>> download and test out. '
>> From:
>> <http://lifehacker.com/#!5780393/firefox-4-release-candidate-now-available-to-everyone>
>>
>> Is this a basketball metaphor? Is it marketing jargon or geek speak? Does
>> it require less processing effort for you than for me? :)
>
> This is originally hip-hop slang, and refers to releasing a recording or
> the like. OED has this to 1992 (following HDAS):
>
> 1992 _Rap Masters_ Jan. 58 In 1979...the Sugarhill Gang dropped their
> first rap album.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
>
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