Meanings
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1
noun
A person who leaves school or college before finishing their course.
He was a high school dropout who later became a successful businessman.
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2
noun
A person who chooses to leave normal society or a group.
In the 1960s, many young people became dropouts and lived in communes.
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3
noun
A brief loss of a signal, sound, or data on a recording or connection.
There were several dropouts during the video call.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
dropouts
Derived forms
maxoutnondropoutstopout
Etymology
Deverbal from drop out.