drop off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.94 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
American usage; Transitive verb
verb
To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television."
- "And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long."
- "Can you drop the kids off at school?"
- "I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight."
- "After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country."
- "The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree."
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- American usage
- Transitive verb
- Dated
- Slang