drop into

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Verb

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drop into (third-person singular simple present drops into, present participle dropping into, simple past and past participle dropped into)

  1. (slang, archaic) Synonym of lay into (beat up or attack)
    • 1891, Edward Corbett, An Old Coachman's Chatter, page 268:
      The reins were evidently useless, and it was a matter for the whip, whether I could hit hard enough. [] However, I dropped into him with such effect that he became in as great a hurry to cross the road as the proverbial duck before thunder.
  2. (UK, informal) To visit.
  3. (informal) To thrust (someone) into a situation.
    He dropped me into a gang shootout.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary