sweatdrop

sweat +‎ drop

sweatdrop (plural sweatdrops)

1. A drop of sweat.
   • 1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet

     What felt like a fly crawling down my cheek was a solitary sweatdrop.

   • 1980, Daniel Curzon, The Misadventures of Tim McPicks

     A sweatdrop plopped to the floor. "Can't have men in our Army afraid to show their equipment, can we? No, of course not!"

sweatdrop (third-person singular simple present sweatdrops, present participle sweatdropping, simple past and past participle sweatdropped)

1. (intransitive, of a character in anime or manga) To show a stylized bead of sweat at the forehead, indicating embarrassment, exasperation, etc.

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