brand-name dropping—attempting to impress others by mentioning the brand names of goods that one owns:
- We just lay there on my Thermarest Ultra-Light listening to my tiny Grundig shortwave and had a great old time. Sorry about all the brand-name-dropping…
name-dropping—attempting to impress others by familiarly mentioning the names of distinguished people in order to imply one’s own importance:
- Clarke loves to make fun of his name-dropping. “Name-dropping is vulgar as I told the Queen last week,” he joked.