drop off

phraseB12 meaningsNot compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To drop off is to deliver somebody or something on your way. A quick stop, and you carry on.

It splits round an object, and the noun drop-off point is where it happens, which every school has. There is a completely separate sense meaning to fall asleep, usually accidentally, so dropping off in front of the television is a national pastime. A third sense means to decline, since sales or numbers can drop off, and the noun a drop-off means that decline. Only the context separates the three.

Definitions of drop off

1phrasedeliverTo deliver someone or something on the way somewhere.B1
“I can drop off the parcel on my way in.”
2phrasedrop offTo fall asleep.B1
“He tends to drop off in the middle of the news.”

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 37 of A Man Called Ove.

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drop off

phraseB12 meaningsNot compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To drop off is to deliver somebody or something on your way. A quick stop, and you carry on.

Definitions of drop off

1phrasedeliverTo deliver someone or something on the way somewhere.B1
“I can drop off the parcel on my way in.”
2phrasedrop offTo fall asleep.B1
“He tends to drop off in the middle of the news.”

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 37 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word