Drop, DROP, drops or DROPS may refer to:

  • Drop (liquid) or droplet, a small volume of liquid
  • Eye drops, saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes
  • Drop (unit), a unit of measure of volume
  • Falling (physics), allowing an object to fall or drop
  • Free fall
  • Drop, or topographic prominence, the height of a hill above its surroundings

Computers and technology

  • Drop (SQL), a command in SQL queries to remove an existing database, table, index, or view
  • Drop (telecommunication), the portion of a device directly connected to the internal station facilities
  • Don't Route Or Peer (DROP) list, a list of spam sources
  • Drops (app), a language learning app

Confectionery

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

Sports

  • Drops Cycling Team, a British women's professional cycling team
  • Drop (boxing), a type of punch used in boxing
  • Drop kick, a type of kick in various forms of football and rugby
  • Drop goal, a way of scoring points in rugby
  • Bat drop, a calculation used to regulate baseball bats
  • Drop ball (disambiguation)
  • Drop shot (disambiguation)

Music

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

Albums

  • Drop (The Shamen album), 1987
  • Drop (Bride album), 1995
  • Drop (Gavin Harrison & 05Ric album), 2007
  • Drop (Thee Oh Sees album), 2014
  • D.R.O.P., a 1989 album by Japanese rock band Zelda

Songs

  • "Drop" (The Pharcyde song), 1995
  • "Drop" (Timbaland & Magoo song), 2001
  • "Drop" (Rich Boy song), 2009
  • "Drop" (Dallas Smith song), 2019
  • "Drop!" (song), by Forrest Frank, 2025
  • "Drop", by Blue October from the album Consent to Treatment, 2000
  • "Drop", by Chloe x Halle from the EP Sugar Symphony, 2016
  • "Drop", by Robert Forster from the album Calling from a Country Phone, 1993
  • "Drop", by Kenji and Artofficial, early aliases for Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn respectively, 1998
  • "Drop", by American jazz artist, Plunky, 2006
  • "Drop", by Ying Yang Twins, 2008
  • "Drop", by Khalisol which represented New Mexico in the American Song Contest, 2022
  • "Drops" (song), by Maaya Sakamoto, 2025

Other uses

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

See also

  • The Drop (disambiguation)
  • Dewdrop (disambiguation)
  • Drip (disambiguation)
  • Droplets (disambiguation)
  • Dropout (disambiguation)
  • Dropped (disambiguation)
  • Dropper
  • Dropping (disambiguation)