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drop into en · VERB

Meanings

1. (archaic, slang) Synonym of lay into (“beat up or attack”).
   • 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. 1891, Edward Corbett, An Old Coachman's Chatter, page 268:
2. (UK, informal) To visit.
3. (informal) To thrust (someone) into a situation.
   • He dropped me into a gang shootout.

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