drop off
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To fall asleep.
- To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- To fall off: To drop from, fall from.
- To fall off: To drop, fall.
- To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- To lessen or reduce.
- To die.
- To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
Noun
- A sudden downward slope or cliff.
- A sudden downward slope or cliff: The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.
- A decrease; especially, a sudden one.
- A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
- A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.
- A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off; the event or act of dropping them off.
- A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.
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