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Drop out   /drɑp aʊt/   Listen
Drop out

verb
1.
Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat.  Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, fall by the wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the towel.
2.
Withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values.
3.
Leave school or an educational program prematurely.





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"Drop out" Quotes from Famous Books



... their dangerous love affairs run be controlled. He says, "There is no more important question before the teaching fraternity today than how to deal justly and successfully with boys at this time of life. This is the age when they drop out of school" in far too large numbers, and he thinks that the small percentage of male graduates from our high schools is due to "the inability of the average grammar grade or high-school teacher to deal rightly with boys in this critical period of ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... it's only half a mile more but this pace is too hot. I'll have to drop out. Tell the folks at home I died a ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... usage is the exclusive property of those persons who positively know that all UFO's are nonsense. Fortunately, for the sake of good manners if for no other reason, the ranks of this knowing category are constantly dwindling. One by one these people drop out, starting with the instant they see their ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt
... molded to the surface of the form when dampened. Do not, however, cut away the bunch of muscles on each side of the cheeks in which the whisker roots are embedded, or these distinguished ornaments will drop out. By criss-crossing these with cuts they are made as flexible as the rest of the skin. After the shaving process get a suitable needle and stout thread and sew up any cuts or tears that have been made. If proper care has been used there will be little of this to do, always remembering that a ...
— Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit • Albert B. Farnham
... that our government at Richmond will decline this resignation and give him a free hand," said Colonel Talbot to Harry. "It would be a terrible loss if he were permitted to drop out of the army. I tell you for your own private ear that I have taken it upon me to Write a letter of protest to President Davis himself. I felt that I could do so, because Mr. Davis and myself were associated closely in ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler


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