Definition of "drop out"

drop out

verb
third-person singular simple present drops out, present participle dropping out, simple past and past participle dropped out
1. (idiomatic) To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
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  He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.
  2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender)
  After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home.
  2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎
  Altman has long been viewed as a Silicon Valley wunderkind. In the tradition of other tech founders before him, Altman dropped out of Stanford in 2005 to launch his social-networking app, Loopt, which he later sold for $43m.
  2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in The Guardian‎
2. To opt out of conventional society.
3. (of sound, electronic signal, etc.) To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop,‎ out.
  Quotations
  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.
  1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company

Definition of "drop out"

drop out

verb

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