drop out• He advised young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out".• He was a dropout and a hippy back in the '60s.• A group of young people dropped out and set up a commune in the middle of the forest.• One third of the city's studentsdrop out before graduation.• He dropped out of artcollege and joined a band.• She decided to drop out of the ratrace because she couldn't stand working 60 hours a week.• While kids in the affluent sixties could afford to drop out, things were very different ten years later.
drop of• Kelly dropped out of college after one semester.• In extreme cases they can drop out ofposition. with disastrous results.• Dondropped out of school in June, dashing all hope of be-coming a lawyer.• At 16, Williams dropped out of school to sing in nightclubs and the flourishingdancescene at South Side socialclubs.• Many of them drop out of school, too exhausted to study.• You want to drop out of school?• Then, too, his thinking had hardly dropped out of the blue.• In 1988, soon after losing the Illinois primary to GeorgeBush, Doledropped out of the race.• The survey was conductedMarch 2-3 before Alexander and Lugar dropped out of the race.