drop outverb

• 1

  To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.

  • Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.
  • He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.
• 2

  To opt out of conventional society.

• 3

  To be lost or momentarily interrupted.

  • I can't make phone calls because the line keeps dropping out.
• 4

  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, out.

  • 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.
• 5

  To give way under someone.

  • The board he was walking on dropped out.
• 6

  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.
• 7

  slangTo dismiss, break up with or abandon (someone).