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Definition of Drop off

1. Verb. Fall or diminish. "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"

2. Verb. Change from a waking to a sleeping state. "He always falls asleep during lectures"

3. Verb. Leave or unload. "Drop off the passengers at the hotel"

4. Verb. Retreat.

5. Verb. Get worse. "My grades are slipping"

Definition of Drop off

1. Verb. (idiomatic) (''intransitive'') To fall asleep. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) (''transitive'') To deliver; to deposit or leave. ¹

3. Verb. To fall. ¹

4. Verb. To lessen or reduce. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop Off

drop hammer drop hand drop heart drop in drop in the bucket drop in the ocean drop ins drop keel drop kerb drop kick

drop kicks drop letter drop light drop like flies drop line drop off (current term) drop off the radar drop open drop out drop press

drop punt drop punts drop round drop scone drop ship drop shipped drop shipping drop ships drop shot

Literary usage of Drop off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... leaving the ends of them on the tree, which strengthen it much ; and when after many years they drop off, the tree is weakened by it, and very often is ..."

2. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"Among the Verbs are wheel (in a chair), cut a dash, go further and fare worse, to hurry- scurry, drop off (mori), gone to the dogs. ..."

3. Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them by Archibald Little (1899)
"Feet drop off.— Pain till Death.—Typical Cases.—Eczema, Ulcera- tion, Mortification.—General Health affected. IT is a popular error in England to suppose ..."

4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"... they cannot have too much water ; after that they want much less, or the leaves turn yellow and drop off. Some years I grow Solanum jasminoides over ..."

5. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1992)
"In areas where entanglement is not a problem, divers may wish occasionally to drop off the towline during traverses to investigate objects of interest. ..."

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