[Ads-l] New opponym: "Drop"

[Ben Zimmer]

Guessing JL meant to share a link to our May 2023 thread on "drop."

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2023-May/thread.html#163532

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM Jonathan Lighter <
00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Also at
>
> https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/drop/KtbxLzGcFZlqMzPlmLKjnxsCSqjjRxJpsV
>
>
> 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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