dropouts in English

noun

1

a person who has abandoned a course of study or who has rejected conventional society to pursue an alternative lifestyle.

a college dropout

synonyms: nonconformist, hippie, beatnik, Bohemian, free spirit, rebel, oddball, eccentric

2

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.

The red line in the graphs represents the amount of latency beyond which audio dropouts are perceptible to humans.

3

a U-shaped slot at the end of a fork on a bicycle, made to receive the axle and enabling the wheel to be changed rapidly.

Now the Nader hooks (wheel retention devices) built into suspension fork dropouts are designed to stop the head of the skewer from coming out without being unscrewed a number of turns.

noun

• quitter, idler, layabout, loafer, deadbeat, delinquent, burnout
• nonconformist, hippie, beatnik, Bohemian, free spirit, rebel, oddball, eccentric

Use "dropouts" in a sentence

1. About half of the prisoners are high-school dropouts.

2. Many of the town's dropouts hang around the square.

3. The software-based tracking system is aimed at minimising rate of school dropouts.

4. In contrast to the urban education dominated by school dropouts, rural education is confronted with non-schooling and school absenteeism

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6. They act it out, and they're on their way to jail or they're on their way to being dropouts.

7. We are reaping the harvest of parental neglect, divorce, child abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropouts, illegal drugs, and streets full of violence.

8. All children were represented in the Children’s Parliament, including albino children, child workers, school dropouts and children under the care of SOS Children’s Villages.

9. “A majority of the 40,000 odd applicants are graduates, matriculants and college dropouts, while the academic criterion for a rat killer is just primary school education,” reports the Indian Express.

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