drop out
• stop participating or being involved in something.
• "she stepped into the spotlight after a fellow actress had to drop out due to ill health"
• abandon a course of study.
• "she had dropped out of college"
Similar:
give up,
finish with,
withdraw from,
retire from,
cancel,
discontinue,
end,
stop,
cease,
halt,
terminate,
abandon,
forgo,
relinquish,
dispense with,
have done with,
throw up,
pack in,
quit,
cry off,
• reject conventional society to pursue an alternative lifestyle.
• "he was a child of the sixties who had temporarily dropped out"
• restart play with a drop kick.
dropout
noun
• a person who has abandoned a course of study or who has rejected conventional society to pursue an alternative lifestyle.
• "a college dropout"
Similar:
beatnik,
hippy,
bohemian,
nonconformist,
free spirit,
avant-gardist,
rebel,
misfit,
outsider,
loner,
eccentric,
idler,
layabout,
loafer,
lounger,
good-for-nothing,
freak,
oddball,
deadbeat,
waster,
bum,
bad boy,
• the restarting of play with a drop kick.
• a momentary loss of recorded audio signal or an error in reading data on a magnetic tape or disk, usually due to a flaw in the coating.
• a U-shaped slot at the end of a fork or stay on a bicycle, made to receive the axle and enabling the wheel to be changed rapidly.
