Mic drop refers to the action of deliberately dropping or tossing aside one's microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive, but it's more likely to be figurative - or an exclamation to emphasize
The mic drop has been employed by rappers andcomedians3since the 1980s, and it's grownsteadily4in popularity since 2007, but it's only in the last year or so that it's become a meme throughout American culture. And no single person has been associated with the mic drop more frequently...