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Someone who quits school before graduation
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dropout
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ In the early 1980s it had the highest absenteeism and dropout rates in Portland. ▪ He was white, 32, a high school dropout who did indeed know the victim and live in her building. ▪ An even higher dropout ...
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Dropout is a 1970 Italian romantic drama directed by Tinto Brass . It stars real-life couple, Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave . They also worked with Brass a year later on the drama, La vacanza . Dropout was released in France on December 18, 1970, followed ...
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Little Sammy Chianti, seventh grade dropout and neighborhood terrorist, became known as Sam the Bomber and participated in another fifty-six slayings before attaining legal age.
It is widely known that Jobs, a dropout from Reed College in Portland, had experimented with drugs and pursued a countercultural lifestyle both before and after helping found the quirky computer maker.
In the meantime our restless civic pillars ought to turn their attention to the elements that produce the criminals whom we so fearthe unemployment, poverty, teenaged pregnancies, broken homes and dropout rate.
I said many of the people I talked to were not freaks and dropouts, but competent professionals with bank accounts and spotless reputations.
It seems unremarkable that Hollywood zeros and college dropouts sneer about the intelligence of the guy who won the Cold War.
For the second year in a row the festival celebrated the First Amendment, giving its "Freedom of Speech Award" to college dropout Michael Moore, in an event hosted by Joe Lockhart, former press secretary to Bill Clinton, a president whose IRS audited people who engaged in free speech against him.
She focused on the notes—not that there was much to read, beyond the usual tired litany of red-lined credit ratings, public trust derivatives, broken promises, exhibitions of petrified feco-stalagmites, and an advanced career as an art-school dropout.
And then you can go join the other artistic dilettantes and dropouts and mental cases that Sad King Billy collects on whatever Outback world he lives on.
The other item was smaller because Will Darnell had been a 'suspected crime figure', and Don Vandenberg had only been a dipshit dropout gas-jockey.
Undaunted, I burst out with questions like whether he preferred Panama Red or Acapulco Gold and how the fuck did we manage to fit inside of a tiny post office box and other things a propos a naive young semiliterate dropout hippy writer.
Most of his supporters are young: Students, dropouts, artists, poets, crazies -- the people who respect Cesar Chavez, but who can't really relate to church-going farmworkers.
She's a law school dropout, efficient, intelligent, computer literate, multilingual, empathic, diplomatic, moderately ambitious, extremely attractive, and devoutly gay.
In 1968, Terrill Samson, just seventeen years old, had been a high school dropout looking to beat the draft and avoid going to Vietnam and dying in the fields like many of his Detroit gang-banging friends.
There were dropouts all along the way: hillbillies, Okies, Arkies -- they're all the same people.
This was the era of love-ins, psychedelics, dropouts, war protests, body paint, assassinations, LSD, and rumors of kids so stoned their eyeballs got fried because they stared at the sun too long.