(idiomatic) To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.
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To opt out of conventional society.
He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.
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(of sound, electronic signal, etc.) To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
I’m an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we’re technically in the same generation.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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