# Drop

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**Drop**, **DROP**, **drops** or **DROPS** may refer to:

- [Drop (liquid)](/source/Drop_(liquid)) or droplet, a small volume of liquid - [Eye drops](/source/Eye_drop), saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes
- [Drop (unit)](/source/Drop_(unit)), a unit of measure of volume
- [Falling (physics)](/source/Falling_(physics)), allowing an object to fall or drop - [Free fall](/source/Free_fall)
- Drop, or [topographic prominence](/source/Topographic_prominence), the height of a hill above its surroundings

## Computers and technology

- [Drop (SQL)](/source/Drop_(SQL)), a command in SQL queries to remove an existing database, table, index, or view
- [Drop (telecommunication)](/source/Drop_(telecommunication)), the portion of a device directly connected to the internal station facilities
- [Don't Route Or Peer](/source/The_Spamhaus_Project#Don't_Route_Or_Peer_list) (DROP) list, a list of spam sources
- [Drops (app)](/source/Drops_(app)), a language learning app

## Confectionery

- [Drops (confectionery)](/source/Drops_(confectionery)), a general term for small, round sweets
- [Lemon drop (candy)](/source/Lemon_drop_(candy)), a hard-sugar, lemon-flavored sweet
- [Hershey's Drops](/source/Hershey's_Drops), chocolate sweets based on the Hershey bar
- [London drops](/source/London_drops), a Swedish/Finnish sugar-coated liquorice sweet
- Drop (*Eng.* [Salty liquorice](/source/Salty_liquorice)), a common Dutch sweet
- Cough drop, or [throat lozenge](/source/Throat_lozenge), a medicated confectionery

## Sports

- [Drops Cycling Team](/source/Drops_Cycling_Team), a British women's professional cycling team
- [Drop (boxing)](/source/Drop_(boxing)), a type of punch used in boxing
- [Drop kick](/source/Drop_kick), a type of kick in various forms of football and rugby
- [Drop goal](/source/Drop_goal), a way of scoring points in rugby
- Bat drop, a calculation used to regulate [baseball bats](/source/Baseball_bat)
- [Drop ball (disambiguation)](/source/Drop_ball_(disambiguation))
- [Drop shot (disambiguation)](/source/Drop_shot_(disambiguation))

## Music

- [Drop (music)](/source/Drop_(music)), a section in music where the music will crescendo to a climax, pause briefly, then resume
- [Needle drop (DJing)](/source/Needle_drop_(DJing)), a technique used by DJs to cue music quickly
- Drops, a J-Pop voice acting group under the label [Starchild](/source/Starchild_(label))
- Drop, a term, used as a verb or noun, to refer to a [music release](/source/Music_release)

### Albums

- [*Drop* (The Shamen album)](/source/Drop_(The_Shamen_album)), 1987
- [*Drop* (Bride album)](/source/Drop_(Bride_album)), 1995
- [*Drop* (Gavin Harrison & 05Ric album)](/source/Drop_(Gavin_Harrison_%26_05Ric_album)), 2007
- [*Drop* (Thee Oh Sees album)](/source/Drop_(Thee_Oh_Sees_album)), 2014
- *D.R.O.P.*, a 1989 album by Japanese rock band [Zelda](/source/Zelda_(band))

### Songs

- ["Drop" (The Pharcyde song)](/source/Drop_(The_Pharcyde_song)), 1995
- ["Drop" (Timbaland & Magoo song)](/source/Drop_(Timbaland_%26_Magoo_song)), 2001
- ["Drop" (Rich Boy song)](/source/Drop_(Rich_Boy_song)), 2009
- ["Drop" (Dallas Smith song)](/source/Drop_(Dallas_Smith_song)), 2019
- ["Drop!" (song)](/source/Drop!_(song)), by Forrest Frank, 2025
- "Drop", by Blue October from the album *[Consent to Treatment](/source/Consent_to_Treatment)*, 2000
- "Drop", by Chloe x Halle from the EP *[Sugar Symphony](/source/Sugar_Symphony)*, 2016
- "Drop", by Robert Forster from the album *[Calling from a Country Phone](/source/Calling_from_a_Country_Phone)*, 1993
- "Drop", by [Kenji and Artofficial](/source/Linkin_Park_songs_discography#Other_appearances), early aliases for Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn respectively, 1998
- "Drop", by American jazz artist, [Plunky](/source/James_%22Plunky%22_Branch), 2006
- "Drop", by [Ying Yang Twins](/source/Ying_Yang_Twins), 2008
- "Drop", by Khalisol which represented New Mexico in the *[American Song Contest](/source/American_Song_Contest)*, 2022
- ["Drops" (song)](/source/Drops_(song)), by Maaya Sakamoto, 2025

## Other uses

- [Drop (b-boy move)](/source/Drop_(b-boy_move)), a breakdancing technique
- [Drop (company)](/source/Drop_(company)), an American e-commerce company
- [Drop (loyalty program)](/source/Drop_(loyalty_program)), a Canadian coalition customer loyalty program
- [Drop (policy debate)](/source/Drop_(policy_debate)), an argument that goes unanswered
- [Drop, Masovian Voivodeship](/source/Drop,_Masovian_Voivodeship), a village in east-central Poland
- [Ball drop](/source/Ball_drop), an annual event held every New Year's Eve in New York City's Times Square
- [Dead drop](/source/Dead_drop), a method of passing items or information within espionage tradecraft
- [Voltage drop](/source/Voltage_drop), a decrease in voltage across electrical devices in a circuit
- Deferred [Retirement](/source/Retirement) Option Plan, or Deferred Retirement Option Program
- [Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System](/source/Demountable_Rack_Offload_and_Pickup_System) (DROPS), a family of logistics vehicles operated by the British Army
- [*Drop* (film)](/source/Drop_(film)), a 2025 American thriller

## See also

- [The Drop (disambiguation)](/source/The_Drop_(disambiguation))
- [Dewdrop (disambiguation)](/source/Dewdrop_(disambiguation))
- [Drip (disambiguation)](/source/Drip_(disambiguation))
- [Droplets (disambiguation)](/source/Droplets_(disambiguation))
- [Dropout (disambiguation)](/source/Dropout_(disambiguation))
- [Dropped (disambiguation)](/source/Dropped_(disambiguation))
- [Dropper](/source/Dropper)
- [Dropping (disambiguation)](/source/Dropping_(disambiguation))

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