noun
drop candy; hard candy drop
Refers to small hard candies, often imagined as round or fruit-flavored drops. Common in compounds and product names as well as ordinary noun use.
昔ながらの缶入りドロップを買った。
I bought old-fashioned drop candies in a tin.
ジェットコースターの最後のドロップが一番怖かった。
The final drop of the roller coaster was the scariest part.
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
drop curve; vertical-breaking curveball
Baseball term for a breaking pitch that drops sharply downward; as ドロップする, it describes the ball dropping in flight.
その投手のドロップは打者の手元で鋭く落ちる。
That pitcher's drop curve breaks sharply downward near the batter.
ボールが打者の前で大きくドロップした。
The ball dropped sharply in front of the batter.
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb
dropping a ball; golf drop
Golf term for putting a ball back into play by dropping it, especially after taking relief such as for an unplayable ball.
救済を受けるため、プレーヤーはボールをドロップした。
To take relief, the player dropped the ball.
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb
drop; mouse drop action
Computing term for releasing an item with the mouse or pointer after dragging it, as in drag-and-drop operations.
ファイルをこのフォルダーにドロップしてください。
Please drop the file into this folder.