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