mic drop

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mic drop (plural mic drops)

1. (slang, idiomatic) An instance of dropping the mic.
   • 2016 May 2, Stuart Heritage, “‘Obama out’: a brief history of mic drops”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     No mic drop in history will ever be as thoroughly scrutinised as the one performed by Barack Obama during his final White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening. Historians hundreds of years from now will refer to his “Obama out” in the same breath as the Emancipation Proclamation and “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

   • 2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Many crypto bros try to silence skeptics with the same mic drop: “Have fun staying poor.”