drop out
Verb
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Verb
drop out
- (idiomatic) To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
- Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.
- To opt out of conventional society.
- (of sound, electronic signal, etc.) To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
- I can't make phone calls because the line keeps dropping out.
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see drop, out
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
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