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# defaultMenu

Overridden by subclasses to return the default pop-up menu for instances of the receiving class.

```
class var defaultMenu: NSMenu? { get }
```

## Discussion

The default implementation returns `nil`.

## See Also

[`menu`](/documentation/AppKit/NSResponder/menu)

Returns the responder’s menu.


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