drop out
verb- 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.
- To be lost or momentarily interrupted. · I can't make phone calls because the line keeps dropping out.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, out.
- To give way under someone. · The board he was walking on dropped out.
- To cause someone to slip and/or fall down. · The ground dropped out from under him.· When she left him, his world dropped out beneath him.
- To dismiss, break up with or abandon (someone).
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