namedrop

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

namedrop
    v 1: refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire
         in order to try to impress them

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

namedrop \namedrop\ v. i.
   To refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors
   admire so as to impress them; same as to {drop names}.

   Syn: drop names.
        [WordNet 1.5]