Words that rhyme with backdrop

• agitprop 0
  n 1: political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
• airdrop 0
  n 1: delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft; "until then, front line troops will be supplied by airdrop"
• atop 0
  adv 1: on, to, or at the top
• bop 0
  n 1: the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes [syn: Federal Bureau of Prisons, BoP] 2: an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) [syn: bop, bebop] v 1: dance the bebop [syn: bop, bebop] 2: hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash]
• chop 0
  n 1: the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide); "the boat headed into the chop" 2: a small cut of meat including part of a rib 3: a jaw; "I'll hit him on the chops" 4: a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball [syn: chop, chop shot] 5: a grounder that bounces high in the air [syn: chop, chopper] v 1: cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat" [syn: chop, chop up] 2: move suddenly 3: form or shape by chopping; "chop a hole in the ground" 4: strike sharply, as in some sports 5: cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack] 6: hit sharply
• cop 0
  n 1: uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig] v 1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom] 2: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop]
• crop 0
  n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop, harvest] 2: a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale 3: a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas" 4: the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores" 5: the stock or handle of a whip 6: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop] v 1: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short" 2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work] 3: yield crops; "This land crops well" 4: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop, graze, pasture] 5: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, browse, graze, range, pasture] 6: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]
• dewdrop 0
  n 1: a drop of dew
• drop 0
  n 1: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" [syn: drop, bead, pearl] 2: a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling [syn: drop, drib, driblet] 3: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall] 4: a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop" [syn: cliff, drop, drop-off] 5: a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) 6: a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn: drop, fall] 7: a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery [syn: drop curtain, drop cloth, drop] 8: a central depository where things can be left or picked up 9: the act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful" v 1: let fall to the ground; "Don't drop the dishes" 2: to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" 3: go down in value; "Stock prices dropped" 4: fall or descend to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: sink, drop, drop down] 5: terminate an association with; "drop him from the Republican ticket" 6: utter with seeming casualness; "drop a hint"; drop names" 7: stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" [syn: drop, knock off] 8: leave or unload; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel" [syn: drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload, discharge] 9: cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" [syn: fell, drop, strike down, cut down] 10: lose (a game); "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13" 11: pay out; "spend money" [syn: spend, expend, drop] 12: lower the pitch of (musical notes) [syn: flatten, drop] [ant: sharpen] 13: hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" [syn: dangle, swing, drop] 14: stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: dismiss, send packing, send away, drop] 15: let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" [syn: dribble, drip, drop] 16: get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop] 17: take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; "She dropped acid when she was a teenager" 18: omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing; " New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's" 19: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart] 20: change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon" 21: fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til you drop" 22: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate] 23: give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning"
• eardrop 0
  n 1: an earring with a pendant ornament [syn: pendant earring, drop earring, eardrop]
• eavesdrop 0
  v 1: listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations" [syn: listen in, eavesdrop]
• gumdrop 0
  n 1: a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals
• outcrop 0
  n 1: the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land [syn: outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop] v 1: appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground; "Big boulders outcropped"
• raindrop 0
  n 1: a drop of rain
• snowdrop 0
  n 1: common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink- tinged white flowers [syn: wood anemone, snowdrop, Anemone quinquefolia]
• stonecrop 0
  n 1: any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers
• teardrop 0
  n 1: anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) 2: a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes" [syn: tear, teardrop]
• turboprop 0
  n 1: an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine [syn: propjet, turboprop, turbo- propeller plane]
• malaprop 0
  n 1: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar [syn: malapropism, malaprop]
• overcrop 0
  v 1: to exhaust by excessive cultivation; "the farmers overcropped the land" [syn: overcrop, overcultivate]
• northrop 0
  n 1: United States biochemist (1891-1987) [syn: Northrop, John Howard Northrop]
• namedrop 0
  v 1: refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
• intercrop 0
• sharecrop 0
• paradrop 0
• underprop 0
• ribbentrop 0
• winthrop 0

See also backdrop definition and backdrop synonyms