Term: name-dropping: the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener
Candidate hypernym: mention: a remark that calls attention to something or someone → 1
Candidate hypernym: eel: voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins → 0
Candidate hypernym: grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties → 0
Candidate hypernym: simplification: an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity → 0
Candidate hypernym: hyracoidea: hyraxes and some extinct animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: knockdown: a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet → 0
Candidate hypernym: lengthiness: the consequence of being lengthened in duration → 0
Candidate hypernym: otoscope: medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) → 0
Candidate hypernym: thraupidae: tanagers → 0
Candidate hypernym: halter: either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight → 0
Candidate hypernym: vulpes: foxes → 0