drop into

English

Verb

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

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary