acid drop
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
acid drop (plural acid drops)
- An old-fashioned boiled sweet containing citric acid or tartaric acid.
- Synonym: acidulated drop
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 130:
- That he bestowed two acid drops and dried fig on Hetty.
- A skateboarding trick in which the skater rides off a ledge and drops onto the board without performing an ollie.
- Coordinate term: bomb drop