drop out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.97 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
verb
To opt out of conventional society.
verb
To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, out.
Example Sentences
- "Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out."
- "He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of."
- "I’m an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we’re technically in the same generation."
- "After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home."
- "Altman has long been viewed as a Silicon Valley wunderkind. In the tradition of other tech founders before him, Altman dropped out of Stanford in 2005 to launch his social-networking app, Loopt, which he later sold for $43m."
- "Huguette Diakabana remembers when she had to drop out of school at age 10 — until a mysterious donor came to her rescue."