drop back
verb- Of a quarterback or other player in the backfield, to take a number of steps back from the line of scrimmage immediately after the snap or hike of the ball, to avoid defenders. · The Tiger quarterback is dropping back to pass.
- To move to a lower (or slower) position in a race or competition; to slow down so as to meet up with someone behind oneself
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, back.
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The girl let the braid drop back with a sigh that seemed to come from her very toes and to exhale forth all the sorrows of the ages.
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