[Ads-l] New opponym: "Drop"

[Jonathan Lighter]

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JL

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM Ben Zimmer <
00001aae0710f4b7-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> It's not particularly new. OED has citations from 1988 for this meaning:
> "To release or make available (a musical recording, television programme,
> etc.). Also intransitive: (of a musical recording, television programme,
> etc.) to be released or made available."
>
> I originally shared the two 1988 cites from Spin Magazine (one transitive
> and one intransitive) on this list in 2011.
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-March/107482.html
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM Marc Sacks <
> 00001e2444fb48ef-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > I was confused by this line in a post from the Forward: " AppleTV+
> dropped
> > the trailer for its new series, *The Savant*, inspired by the true story
> of
> > an undercover *Anti-Defamation League* researcher who infiltrated online
> > hate groups."
> >
> > Does "dropped" mean put into circulation (since the story includes the
> > trailer in question) or removed from circulation (as in "dropped from a
> > mailing list")? If the former, is this a recent meaning, and has "drop"
> > become an opponym?
> >
> >
>
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