Wiktionary
n. A dropped ceiling
Usage examples of "drop ceiling".
Previous owners had made a halfhearted attempt to create a usable space out of it, insulating the roof and putting in a drop ceiling so that it resembled a room, albeit not for the particularly tall, the ceiling only about seven feet high.
Then a soft high-pitched humming could be heard, and the ceiling began to strobe with flashes of light that came faster and brighter until most of the florescent tubes in the drop ceiling burst into blinding illumination.
They were doing that even before Abbados stinger sawed a zigzag in the drop ceiling.
They were doing that even before Abbado's stinger sawed a zigzag in the drop ceiling.
I went into the ladies' room, and there's a drop ceiling, but it's a mess above it.
The Paradise was a typical New York coffeehouse: Formica tables, Naugahyde benches, an acoustical drop ceiling, water-stained in the corners.
The finished rooms in the basement were easy, because the drop ceiling tiles could be pushed out of the way.